Re: [Pan-users] Re: Composing regex for Pan

[John Aldrich]

On Tuesday 30 March 2004 10:15 pm, Wolf J. Flywheel wrote:
>       John, since your e-mail was composed with KMail, I'll assume you use
> KDE=20
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> at least some of the time.  :)  Have you looked at kregexpeditor?  Here=20
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> on Gentoo, you can find it in the "K" menu:  Utilities -> More=20
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> Programs...  It's in the "kdeutils" package, so I figure most anyone
> with=20
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> KDE installed should have it.
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Nope, I wasn't aware of that. I'll have to look into that. :-)
>
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>       You can compose a regex in that, then paste it into another program.  
> I=20
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> also like it because I can type in the text field, and the utility will=20
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> show me, graphically with plain English labels, what my expression will=20
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> catch.  For instance, I type "(x){0,6}" and the program shows "Repeated=20
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> at most 6 times" with "x" encased in that block.  Handy, especially if=20
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> you're messing with unfamiliar syntax.
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Kewl... Sounds like a plan to me. :-)