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LTCT2016 RegExp

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Regular Expression of the Day

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Regular Expression

 

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[aeiou]

 

What are the components?

brackets   (which defines a  set)

contents  aeiou

What does it do?

Finds any of the characters in brackets

i.e. any English vowel

Which program(s) would you use it?

Works in any program –FLEx, ParaTExt …

What if I added a carat before?

 

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[^aeiou]

 

Non vowels

What would I need to change to make it find any consonant?

 

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[b-df-hj-np-tv-zɓɗŋ]

 

In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)?

Toolbox gdve

genrv

finds either the gloss, definition or vernacular in either language

Find the gloss in either English, national, regional, vernacular


 


 

Week 1 Day 1

Regular Expression

aeiou

What are the components?

 

What does it do?

 

Which program(s) would you use it?

 

What if I added a characters in between the two sets? What would it find?

 

What would I need to change to make it find the same vowel the second time?

 

In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)?

 


 

Week 1 Day 2

Regular Expression

 regex:\wɨ\w

What are the components?

 

What does it do?

 

Which program(s) would you use it?

 

What if I changed the second w to a b?

 regex:\wɨ\b

What would I need to change to make it find the “ɨ” word initial?

 

In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)?

 


 

Week 1 Day 3

Regular Expression

 Find: \\mt1 (.*\r\n)

Replace: \\toc1 \1\0

What are the components?

 

What does it do?

 

Which program(s) would you use it?

 

What if I didn't have the \0?

 

What would I need to change to make it find \mt2 as well?

 

In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)?

 


 

Week 1 Day 4

Regular Expression

 (\\c .*\r\n)(\\v)

What are the components?

 

What does it do?

 

 

Which program(s) would you use it?

 

What if I changed it to?

  (\\c .*\r\n)(\\v 1)

What would I need to change to make it find section headings?

 

In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)?

 


 

Week 1 Day 5

Regular Expression

Find: \\r (.*)\r\n

Replace: \\r \(\1\)\r\n

What are the components?

 

What does it do?

 

 

Which program(s) would you use it?

 

What if I changed \\r to \\s1?

 

What would I need to change to make it remove brackets?

 

In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)?

 


 

Week 2 Day 1

Regular Expression

 \\ps .{5,10}

What are the components?

 

What does it do?

 

Which program(s) would you use it?

 

What if I changed it?

  \\ps .{5,}

What would I need to change to make it find 20 or more?

 

In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)?

 


 

Week 2 Day 2

Regular Expression

Find: (\\ps .*),

Replace: \1 \r\n\\dn

What are the components?

 

What does it do?

 

Which program(s) would you use it?

 

What if the comma was inside the brackets?

 

What would I need to change to make it spit at ;?

 

In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)?

 


 

Week 2 Day 3

Regular Expression

 \\l" rel="">l.*\r\n\\hm.*\r\n

What are the components?

 

What does it do?

 

Which program(s) would you use it?

 

What if I removed the ?

 

What would I need to change to make it find \ph before \hm?

 

In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)?

 


 

Week 2 Day 4

Regular Expression

 \u0301

What are the components?

 

What does it do?

 

Which program(s) would you use it?

 

What if I changed it to?

  \u0301|\u0300

What would I need to change to make it find the vowel as well?

 

In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)?

 


 

Week 2 Day 5

Regular Expression

regex:\d" rel="">\d$

What are the components?

 

What does it do?

 

Which program(s) would you use it?

 

What if I added xxxx?

 regex:\d$

What would I need to change to make it find subsenses as well?

 

In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)?

 


 


Contributors to this page: dhigby and kent_schroeder .
Page last modified on Wednesday March 13, 2019 11:43:27 GMT-0000 by dhigby.

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