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[resurrection2016]

Maybe I missed it in the REGEX section of the tutorial, and maybe I missed it cursorially searching the forums for an answer, but I'm wondering how to do a REGEX search for any plural/possessive/hyphenated, etc. forms of the root string that DO NOT include the root string. For example:

"God's"
"Gods"
"God-...."

But NOT "God".

Thanks.

[JPG]

You could try something like this, but I notice that the italic God is matched (possible issue)

God(?![?! ,.;: ]+)[^ ]+

[resurrection2016]

Thank you. That did seem to work. Can you explain why?

[resurrection2016]

Anyone? Why does this work?

[JPG]

Anyone? Why does this work?

You would need to study how regular expressions work to understand it. There is a section in the User Guide, that comes with e-Sword. Also there is a great source of info here http://www.regular-expressions.info/

Jon

Don't know why I did it that way. I suppose easier would be a positive lookahead, so it is looking for God followed by an apostrophe or hyphen or a to z any amount of times.
God(?=['a-z-]+)

This is better as it does not hit the italics God


After some developer feedback, I now understand that the first regex is encountering some rtf code {\cf15\i God} where the grey Italic is used. So for instance if you tried to search doth any which is found at Jer 51:43 you would have to use this doth \{\\cf15\\i any to find it with a regex.!!!! eeek

Edited by JPG, 15 July 2012 - 01:50 PM.