Hi DiapDealer,
I agree completely. Returning a zero-length match makes no sense here for Sigil. Any search for words that returns non-words as matches is not useful. That is why that [a-zA-Z]* regular expression makes no sense as it would return everything even those with match length 0. The right regular expression to do what the user wants is [a-zA-Z]+ which works in Sigil just as expected.
KevinH
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
@KevinH:
Some regex search engines actually return 0 length matches and allow you to step through them using "find next".
In cases like that using your string:
Code:
<p> this is a line of text </p>
The first "match" would be a zero-length match ('<')
Hitting Find again would match 'p'.
Hitting Find again would be a zero-length match ('>')
Hitting Find again would be a zero-length match (the space)
Hitting Find one more time would match 'this'
etc...
Sigil's regex search feature has never "advanced" beyond the first zero-length match to my knowledge. And I don't see any compelling reasons to make it do so. Having to hit "Find" two, three (or more) times before you find a "real" match doesn't seem all that useful or intuitive to me. |