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to: JORJ STRUMOLO
from: DALLAS HINTON
date: 1995-12-27 17:55:00
subject: TSE 2.51 pro help

Hi Jorj -- on Dec 26 1995 at 16:54, you wrote:
JS>  Regular expressions.  Call up the Table of Contents in the Help,
[...]
JS> section.  You won't understand it all, as it's damn complex and
JS> takes time, but you'll get the general idea.  Regular expressions
I see what you mean -- wow!  That's tremendously powerful!!!
JS> more complex things.
I'm going to have to read that section a couple (of dozen) more times! ;-))
JS>  So why precisiely do you want the space?  Give us the reason,  and
JS> we can likely tell you how to handle the situation.
I seem to often want to ctrl-lftarrow back through a line and then break it 
() at that point.  The space as a search character seems to work well 
for me doing that.
  > Set(WordSet,ChrSet(" *\-0-9A-Z_a-z"))
DH> That works quite well, but adding the space seems to override
  > the A-Za-z -- TSE finds ONLY the spaces between words!
JS>  When?  Under what circumstances?  If you mean for WordLeft and
JS> WordRight, say, that's to be expected, because what it's doing  is
Yes, that's the way I'm using it...
JS> going along until it finds a character NOT in your WordSet  (usually
[...]
JS> line at a time, up to some non-wordset character like  punctuation.
You know, I've been using Qedit since about 1989, and I'm STILL finding new 
and better things it will do!!!
Cheers... Dallas
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