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Regular Expression of the Day
Worked Example
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What are the components? |
brackets (which defines a set) contents aeiou |
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What does it do? |
Finds any of the characters in brackets i.e. any English vowel |
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Which program(s) would you use it? |
Works in any program –FLEx, ParaTExt … |
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What if I added a carat before?
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Non vowels |
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What would I need to change to make it find any consonant? |
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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
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Regular Expression |
aeiou |
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What does it do? |
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Which program(s) would you use it? |
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What if I added a characters in between the two sets? What would it find? |
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What would I need to change to make it find the same vowel the second time? |
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In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)? |
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Week 1 Day 2
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Regular Expression |
regex:\wɨ\w |
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What does it do? |
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Which program(s) would you use it? |
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What if I changed the second w to a b? |
regex:\wɨ\b |
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What would I need to change to make it find the “ɨ” word initial? |
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In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)? |
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Week 1 Day 3
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Regular Expression |
Find: \\mt1 (.*\r\n) Replace: \\toc1 \1\0 |
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What does it do? |
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Which program(s) would you use it? |
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What if I didn't have the \0? |
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What would I need to change to make it find \mt2 as well? |
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In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)? |
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Week 1 Day 4
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Regular Expression |
(\\c .*\r\n)(\\v) |
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What are the components? |
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What does it do? |
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Which program(s) would you use it? |
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What if I changed it to? |
(\\c .*\r\n)(\\v 1) |
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What would I need to change to make it find section headings? |
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In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)? |
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Week 1 Day 5
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Regular Expression |
Find: \\r (.*)\r\n Replace: \\r \(\1\)\r\n |
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What are the components? |
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What does it do? |
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Which program(s) would you use it? |
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What if I changed \\r to \\s1? |
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What would I need to change to make it remove brackets? |
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In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)? |
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Week 2 Day 1
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Regular Expression |
\\ps .{5,10} |
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What are the components? |
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What does it do? |
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Which program(s) would you use it? |
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What if I changed it? |
\\ps .{5,} |
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What would I need to change to make it find 20 or more? |
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In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)? |
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Week 2 Day 2
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Find: (\\ps .*), Replace: \1 \r\n\\dn |
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What are the components? |
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What does it do? |
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Which program(s) would you use it? |
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What if the comma was inside the brackets? |
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What would I need to change to make it spit at ;? |
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In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)? |
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Week 2 Day 3
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Regular Expression |
\\l" rel="">l.*\r\n\\hm.*\r\n |
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What are the components? |
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What does it do? |
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Which program(s) would you use it? |
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What if I removed the ? |
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What would I need to change to make it find \ph before \hm? |
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In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)? |
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Week 2 Day 4
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Regular Expression |
\u0301 |
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What are the components? |
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What does it do? |
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Which program(s) would you use it? |
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What if I changed it to? |
\u0301|\u0300 |
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What would I need to change to make it find the vowel as well? |
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In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)? |
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Week 2 Day 5
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regex:\d" rel="">\d$ |
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What are the components? |
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What does it do? |
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Which program(s) would you use it? |
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What if I added xxxx? |
regex:\d$ |
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What would I need to change to make it find subsenses as well? |
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In what other situations can I use this (or something similar)? |
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