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Multi Commander => Support and Feedback => Topic started by: Crash+Burn on November 05, 2014, 21:46:21

Title: Regex Regex Regex!
Post by: Crash+Burn on November 05, 2014, 21:46:21

Wooo Hoo regex in filters (search) AND selection!

And learned something, I had always thought "*.*" was a valid (if redundant) regex. Apparently only in tools that ignore the regex spec and just consider it ".*"

Anyways, very cool.

Regex Regex Regex!! Aaaahahahahaa!
--- [sounds like the disembodied spirit of 'Jack the Ripper' from "ST:TOS, "Wolf in the Fold" (S02E14) (http://www.amazon.com/Wolf-in-the-Fold/dp/B000HL2DUW)]

Title: Re: Regex Regex Regex!
Post by: Mathias (Author) on November 05, 2014, 21:56:27

I'm no regexp expert..  Trying to do regexp almost makes my head explode..

But there are couple of different regexp specs.  But most of them work almost the same. But there are minor differences between them.
MC using the RegExp engine that are now part of the C++ Language.. and by default it is using the "ECMAScript syntax" grammer (Should be same as JavaScript uses)
( http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/regex/ECMAScript/ )