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Old 03-20-2011, 08:13 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by Jabby View Post
Can anybody point me to a book or tutorial that uses specific examples to explain Regex? I have found quite a few tutorials that do this for the search function, but none for the the replace string.

Thanks and regards - John

P.S. Long, long ago, in a place far away, I wrote, as we called them then, a "string processor" for the PDP-8. I do understand the concept - its the syntax that befuddles me.
Hi, Jabby, and welcome!

If you go back to PDP-8's, you go back as far as I do! You can google "man perlre" and find the man pages for the PERL dialect of regex, which IMHO gives a fairly concise yet readable description. (The PERL dialect seems to come closest to what's used in Sigil.)
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