Need help with some text functions

[vitesse]

@RchdR

So ST is using regexes then

Hi Richard

ST does have some Regex functionality but I had not thought of these new Character Range methods (introduced in version 3.70) in that light. I guess you could think of the character ranges as either having been borrowed from regex or alternatively implementing a very small subset of regex, but really it was just an abbreviation as I found typing out all the characters tedious and potentially error-prone and the alternative of writing a loop dealing with one character at a time seemed less than ideal.

@RchdR

Are any of the methods that use regex labelled?

I see you have started another thread which is a good idea as we are having thread drift here and being off-topic so I will answer over there instead:

StringTheory - Which methods can accept RegEx notation and any RegEx methods per se?

Following on from @vitesse post which showed keepcharranges using a-z as a regex range, I wondered what other regex functionality exists. So looking through the docs I see a few like StringTheory Complete Documentation https://www.capesoft.com/docs/stringtheory/StringTheory.htm#Match https://www.capesoft.com/docs/stringtheory/StringTheory.htm#FindMatch But I wondered if the methods could be grouped so they stand out as ‘these are the regex/strpos methods & properties’? Reason I ask is Im ju…