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Originally Posted by PeterT

See Regex examples

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Originally Posted by Toxaris

Go to here and press download. Print it out and stick it next to your computer. It will help you in the beginning or when things get tricky.

Very cool, guys! I seem to recall this latter downloadable PDF "cheatsheet" being mentioned here (in these forums) before somewhere -- in fact, I think I saved it on my hard drive at the time, but in any case I downloaded it again.

I did start to read the posts on that Regex examples thread -- got through the first page but then began to develop a headache and had to stop.

Ha ha, I'll take another look again later, and browse through it some more, and I also subscribed to that thread, too, and so hopefully, over time, things will start to sink in. It's strange how I've always seemed to struggle with "programmy"-type stuff like this, it's as though there's a "mental block" in my brain and I'm just not really built for it. I really do think it's a knack that one either has, or just doesn't, not unlike artistic or musical aptitude, etc. Conversely, I had an old programmer/system administrator friend once who was a total whiz at this kind of thing, he could pump out the most complex code at the drop of a hat (and he was a veritable savant when it came to performing math calculations in his head), but at the same time he had virtually no sense of aesthetics -- if it was up to him, he'd have been happy if every website out on the web looked like little more than plain text files.

But anyway, not to belabour my reply here, I think I am beginning to see how I could make use of much more Regex knowledge than simply "(.+?)" -- although I do gotta say that just that, and "\1," "\2," etc., in tandem with the auto-tokenise feature in Sigil, has already truly rocked my world! But I am now thinking of one S&R thing that I've been doing that I'm sure could be much-simplified with Regex, even though it's been fairly easy to do by doing multiple "regular" S&Rs -- I'll post that query over on that thread, though, where I guess it belongs.

Thanks again, guys! I'm a slow learner (about Regex, anyway), but hopefully over time I'll get it.

(PS. Totally off-topic to this thread, but is there any way to get email notifications for every post to a thread one is subscribed to in these forums? I often like to save emails with info that I might want to find again later, but I only seem to get notification that there's something new that's been posted -- and then discover that there have, in fact, been two or more things posted. It would be great if I could get emails for all posts, though, instead.)