Re(2): grep matching
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It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 47909
interpreted = N
texte = >I tried everything I could think of to be able to search for an end >square bracket within a character list (delimited by [] in grep), but >it will not work. I can search for the character by itself, and I can >make it work in a character list in BBEdit, but I can't make it work in >WebDNA.The weird thing is that if I have only one occurence of [some web site- >http://www.somewebsite.com] then it works. It stops working when there are 2 occurences of stuff within brackets because it looks l;ike the grep matching happens between the fist open bracket it finds and the last one, thus breaking my link building pattern. See
for the live sample which looks like this :bla bla bla [some web site->http://www.somewebsite.com] bli bli blichanges correctly to bla bla bla
some web site bli bli blibutbla bla bla [some web site->http://www.somewebsite.com] bli bli bli [some other site->http://www.otherwebsite.com] blu blu bluturns to :bla bla bla
some web site bli bli bli [some other site->http://www.otherwebsite.com] blu blu bluIt is almost working and I don't think it is the same problem you encountered. I thuink the grep is trying to match the biggest pattern it can find where I would like to have the smallest pattern possible.That's weird ...Laurent------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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>I tried everything I could think of to be able to search for an end >square bracket within a character list (delimited by [] in grep), but >it will not work. I can search for the character by itself, and I can >make it work in a character list in BBEdit, but I can't make it work in >WebDNA.The weird thing is that if I have only one occurence of [some web site- >http://www.somewebsite.com] then it works. It stops working when there are 2 occurences of stuff within brackets because it looks l;ike the grep matching happens between the fist open bracket it finds and the last one, thus breaking my link building pattern. See for the live sample which looks like this :bla bla bla [some web site->http://www.somewebsite.com] bli bli blichanges correctly to bla bla bla some web site bli bli blibutbla bla bla [some web site->http://www.somewebsite.com] bli bli bli [some other site->http://www.otherwebsite.com] blu blu bluturns to :bla bla bla some web site bli bli bli [some other site->http://www.otherwebsite.com] blu blu bluIt is almost working and I don't think it is the same problem you encountered. I thuink the grep is trying to match the biggest pattern it can find where I would like to have the smallest pattern possible.That's weird ...Laurent------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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