Re: Getting partial matches from a string without forking an outside pro

Toen wij Ruud H.G. van Tol kietelden, kwam er dit uit:
> Toen wij Robert Allerstorfer kietelden, kwam er dit uit:
>
> > deleting 2
> > characters from the end is nearly impossible without forking an
> > outside process".
> That remark is about strings like "xxxxxx6xxx6xxx6xxxx".
>
> Check out the various uses of rep.inc on how to create regexes that
> can do exactly what Jari names 'nearly impossible'.
>
>   var = 'xxxxxx6xxx6xxx6xxxx'
>
>   :0
>   *  1^1 var ?? .
>   * -2^0
>   {
>     rep_Repeat = "$="
>     rep_String = '.'
>
>     INCLUDERC = 'inc/rep.inc'   # rep_Return becomes 17 dots
>
>     :0
>     *$ var ?? ^^\/$rep_Return
>     { var_Left = "$MATCH" }
>
>     :0
>     *$ var ?? ..^^
>     { var_Right = "$MATCH" }
>   }
>
> (untested)
That last recipe should be:

    :0
    * var ?? ()\/..^^
    { var_Right = "$MATCH" }

-- 
Grtz, Ruud

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