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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Testing Regular Expression on OS-X
Date: 26 Nov 2013 21:19:24 GMT
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On 2013-11-26, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 13-11-26 11:12, Jolly Roger wrote:
>
>> I usually end up using TextWrangler for that.
>
> Another good suggestion. Hadn't realised that clicking on the "grep"
> option for a find allows regular expressions. Even detects the special
> characters in the find string. This is perhaps even better than the echo
> option sicne I can take full header of a spam message and make various
> tests.

Yeah. I find myself in TW so often, and the regex support is so good,nd
you can shove whatever content you want into the document to test
multiple use cases and so on. It's handy.

As others have mentioned, not all applications support regex in the same
manner. In those cases, you'll have to edit the expression to use
alternative methods.

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