regex with negative backtrace in Omnis Find

[Mark Phillips]

Hi, Gary,

Yes, one must make time for music!

Six lines of code a day... I used to work with a guy who said "I don't do much each day, but what I do is real good!"

Happy days,

 - Mark

On Dec 5, 2013, at 2:59 PM, Gary Connor <gary_connor at directline-tech.com> wrote:

> 
> Mark - 
> 
> I've found that I can only write seven good lines of code a day, so I figured out that if just one person wrote all that code, coding 200 days a year, they would now be 143 years old. (Oh, and I put all my code in code classes so I don't have to deal with that "scope" stuff - which I thought was a mouthwash.)
> 
> Still, glad that Bas was able to provide a working regular expression, cause you need time for music ;-)
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>> Thanks, Bas.
>> 
>> That worked well. Just under 7K hits, and far easier to deal with.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> - Mark
>> 
>> On Dec 5, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Bastiaan Olij <bastiaan at basenlily.me>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey mark,
>>> 
>>> No idea but I've found that negatives often work better with
>>> bracket notation, so try something like: [^@]\[[^[]+\]
>>> 
>>> That seems to work for me, it only doesn't find lines that start
>>> with [....] because it evaluates the character before but I doubt
>>> any such lines exist?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Bas
>>> 
>>> On 6/12/13 6:00 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>>>> I am analyzing a library with over 200K lines of code, 23K
>>>> branching statements and about 20K of comments. I would like to
>>>> use the Omnis Find to list all the uses of square bracket
>>>> notation that is not a bind variable expression. E.g. include
>>>> "$ctask.[myVarName]" but not "... WHERE name LIKE
>>>> @[myNameString]".
>>>> 
>>>> I could dump the entire library out to file or db, but this is
>>>> a one time thing so a quick find is attractive.
>>>> 
>>>> I have used regular expressions in the SDK Find dialog to
>>>> locate many things. However, the concept of filtering out a
>>>> specific prefix has not produced the desired result. I have
>>>> tried several variants of this expression:
>>>> (?<!@)[
>>>> For example, (\?<!@)\[ among others.
>>>> 
>>>> I would be most grateful for any suggestions.
>>>> 
>>>> -
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