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Tag: regex

  • Tween: Fish function for outputting ranges of text

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    I’ve been developing a Fish function called tween. It’s a simple, flexible utility for extracting ranges of lines from files or STDIN input, and it’s flexible enough to handle just about any scenario you can throw at it, from numeric ranges, array style position/length ranges, or even string matching with regex capabilities. You can find…

  • Regex Replacements for Markdown Fixup

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    BBEdit has a cool feature called Text Factories for automating repetitive text transformations. When Younghart mentioned it on the forum, it got me thinking. While I can’t replicate the full power of Text Factories (which can chain multiple transformations, with all of BBEdit’s power), I could at least add a flexible regex search-and-replace system to…

  • Ruby Regexp::scan with MatchData

    This post will only be of interest to people writing scripts in Ruby. Seriously, zero utility if you’re not using Ruby. Though I would be curious how you accomplish the same thing in other languages like Rust and Python, because I’ve never gotten too deep with string manipulation in anything other than Ruby, Swift, and…