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Posted by Urte   (3 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Fri 19 Jul 2002 11:40 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]

Amended on Fri 19 Jul 2002 11:41 AM (UTC) by Urte

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All right. I need to ask a question, I /have/ to be merely missing something simple in regexps or such.

How do I highlight a string so that string (and only that string) appears highlighted in the paragraph?

IE: Say I wish to highlight the name 'James' so it do the following highlights:

James
(James,
James)

Etc. Basically highlight the string no matter where it appears on the line, but only that substring, in case the bold stuff there isn't easily seen.

And I get the feeling I'm missing something simple. ;)

Urte
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Posted by Magnum   Canada  (580 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #1 on Fri 19 Jul 2002 07:14 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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One of my early triggers, this works on the word "manhole":

<triggers>
  <trigger
   custom_colour="8"
   enabled="y"
   match="(manhole)"
   regexp="y"
   sequence="100"
  >
  </trigger>
</triggers>
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Posted by Urte   (3 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #2 on Fri 19 Jul 2002 10:53 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Ah. Much better. That works well. My mind's gone off regexps since starting to use Windows programs instead of Tinyfugue, seem to have forgotten almost everything. Thanks!

Urte
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (18,772 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #3 on Thu 01 Aug 2002 12:48 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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In fact, you can do without the brackets, which merely return the contents as wildcard 1, which you aren't using.

In your case, just match on "James" and make it a regexp.

eg.


<triggers>
  <trigger
   custom_colour="3"
   enabled="y"
   match="James"
   regexp="y"
   sequence="100"
  >
  </trigger>
</triggers>
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