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Originally Posted by bobcdy
Hitch,
I've looked both UltraEdit and NoteTab Pro both in trial versions. They are both pretty close; both have spell checkers, etc. but one definite advantage is the UE has a well defined Perl regex and has both a short list of the syntax and a url reference to a more complete one from http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_33_1....html#synopsis.
This means that I know exactly what syntax will work in UE whereas I'm not clear about this with NTP. For example, the regex express \s+ worked in UE (and Sigil) but not in NTP. What flavor of regex does NTP or Notepad++ use? My major problem with regex is that I never know which of the many flavors I'm working with in a particular program. Then I get frustrated when something that should work according to a web page doesn't work. As a beginner with regex this is a particularly difficult sort of problem.
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Hi:
As a bit of a REGEX virgin myself, (I hear @capidamonte laughing maniacally somewhere), I know exactly what you mean. NT Pro (which is unrelated to NotePAD, FYI) has a built-in help section/tutorial on Regex, I've learned a ton from it. It uses:
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PCRE is the software library for "Perl Compatible Regular Expressions" built into NoteTab versions 5.0 and above.
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You might want to open up the freebie (light) version and read the help section on Regex--it's an entire help section unto itself with 28 sub-sections. Woo-hoo!
Hitch