... With 'I' and '(?i)', the 'ignore case' option is applied even twice in your pattern -- although, like 'T', it isn't needed here. The RegEx matches 'MON' or...
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flo.gehrke
May 10, 2012 1:35 pm
... Upps, sorry, I meant... ^(?>(\d{2,4}/?){3}\x20\((?!Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun).{3}\)) of course ;-) Flo...
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John Shotsky
shotsky1
May 10, 2012 2:02 pm
I am not understanding something here – The criteria was: three characters that are *NOT* MON|TUE|WED|THU|FRI|SAT|SUN How is this avoiding those strings?...
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flo.gehrke
May 10, 2012 4:03 pm
... John, The second part of that RegEx... \((?!Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun).{3}\) matches an opening and a closing literal bracket '(...)' embracing three...
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John Shotsky
shotsky1
May 10, 2012 4:13 pm
Flo, Thank you. Always nice to learn something new. I will play around with this until I have it fully internalized. I have needed this function quite a few...
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Art Kocsis
artkns
May 10, 2012 9:15 pm
... Don't you mean three CHARACTERS instead of three DIGITS? The "." matches any character, "\d" is used match any digit. Just trying to keep things clear for...
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flo.gehrke
May 10, 2012 11:16 pm
... Art, Thanks for correcting my bad English! Of course, '.{3}' means any character, not numbers (digits) only. Please give me a helping hand: '2012' is a...
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flo.gehrke
May 10, 2012 11:16 pm
Hi GAWK experts! I can clearly see how to run a GAWK script from a NT clip. But I get into trouble whith redirecting GAWK output to a clip. Example: Given some...
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Art Kocsis
artkns
May 11, 2012 1:28 am
... Correct. ... No, it has five letters. ... Expensive!!! He he he. Namaste', Art Young at heart Slightly older in other places A wise ass all throughout!...
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computerhusky
May 11, 2012 9:04 am
Hi Flo, I'd call 'Boeing-747' a 10-character string (or a large aeroplane). And 'Peter' is a 5 letter name (or string) :-) Kind regards Thomas Von iPad...
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Kees Nuyt
knuyt
May 12, 2012 8:25 pm
... The canonical way to keep the list intact is to always include a print action: ========================================== BEGIN{ # init code max = 0 ...
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mycroftj
May 12, 2012 9:08 pm
I am going to be teaching myself GAWK as soon as I have some time and this is a question I'm sure I will want the answer to. I know very little so far but have...
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mycroftj
May 12, 2012 9:12 pm
... Flo, Thank you so much for that. I was close! For some reason, I never realized a look-behind or look-ahead could come in the middle of a regexp. I don't...
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flo.gehrke
May 13, 2012 11:47 am
... Kees, Thanks, your solution is (almost) perfectly doing the job! Also thanks to Joy for considering this problem. The only drawback is that we still have...
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Robert Bull
barlennan
May 13, 2012 3:24 pm
Hello, flo.gehrke; Sunday, May 13, 2012, 12:47:23 PM, you wrote: fg> The only drawback is that we still have to create an output file. fg> Is there no way to...
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flo.gehrke
May 13, 2012 9:56 pm
... Robert, Thanks for your proposal. However, the point is NOT to print to a file. Also, I think there's no need to look for an utility programm for sending...
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mycroftj
May 14, 2012 4:17 pm
... OK. I've spent all morning trying to come up with a solution. I've never done this before and have a few questions to work through on my journey. Why does...
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mycroftj
May 14, 2012 4:30 pm
... Did you ever get an answer to this part of this problem??? I think the problem here is the missing '-f' in the InsertText statement. Looks like it should...
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flo.gehrke
May 14, 2012 8:19 pm
... Joy, diodeom described a working solution with Lua. IMHO, we can't speak of a "missing '-f' in the InsertText statement": In diodeom's model, the input...
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Robert Bull
barlennan
May 14, 2012 9:45 pm
Hello, flo.gehrke; Sunday, May 13, 2012, 10:56:52 PM, you wrote: fg> Also, I think there's no need to look for an utility programm for fg> sending file...
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mycroftj
May 14, 2012 9:55 pm
... Accchh. Sorry about that. You are correct about the -f. I did see the input was from a variable then forgot later on. Between testing different versions of...
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flo.gehrke
May 14, 2012 10:53 pm
... Robert, Yes, '^!Keyboard CTRL+Z' or '^!Toolbar Undo' is a good workaround -- at least in this specific example. Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to see a...
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Robert Bull
barlennan
May 16, 2012 8:35 pm
Hello, flo.gehrke; Monday, May 14, 2012, 11:53:02 PM, you wrote: fg> Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to see a solution where a fg> selection from the active...
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John Shotsky
shotsky1
May 17, 2012 1:05 am
Flo (and all) Attempting to use the negative assertion function discussed below, but with bewildering results. I have two versions of a clip. One works as...
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John Shotsky
shotsky1
May 17, 2012 2:38 am
Further testing shows that I didn't have the clips exactly the same in 6.2 and 7. In one case there is an [s?]on the end of notes, and in the other case there...
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flo.gehrke
May 17, 2012 7:17 pm
... Thanks, Robert! I see that last version working and getting to the result that you had in mind. Actually, I never talked of inserting the result into the...
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Robert Bull
barlennan
May 17, 2012 8:35 pm
Hello, flo.gehrke; Thursday, May 17, 2012, 8:17:01 PM, you wrote: fg> I see that last version working and getting to the result that you fg> had in mind. What...
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Kees Nuyt
knuyt
May 17, 2012 8:51 pm
... PRINT is not the same as print . gawk is case-sensitive. -- Regards, Kees Nuyt...
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mycroftj
May 27, 2012 11:07 pm
I have been at this all day and am still stuck. I want to have a clip run GAWK code from an external file against an external data file and send all the output...
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mycroftj
May 28, 2012 6:30 pm
Found an answer. An idea came to me this morning. After playing with all the fancy DOS NT commands, just plain ^!"^%GAWK_Executable%" -f ... worked. I'm sure...
