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Regex: disable singleline option

hogi — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:03:22 GMT

How do I have to adjust a Regex search such that it just finds "bc" in the first line?

According to Regex web test pages( https://regex101.com/ , https://regexr.com/)

the regex expression "\A.*bc" should find "bc" in the first line - and ignore bc in the second line:

In Jmp with

Regex(
"abcdef
nghibcjk",
	"\A.*bc"
);

I get the result

... which corresponds to Regex with additional option /s (singleline):

How can I disable the singleline option?

I just found options for

.. .and for the greedy option which can be disabled by using .*? instead of .*.

Re: Regex: disable singleline option

jthi — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:29:43 GMT

I don't think JMP's Regex() function supports any (general) regex flags outside of IGNORECAS (I think g, i, m and s are the most useful flags (Advanced searching with flags (mozilla.org)). I have made wish list item regarding global search, though it was hastily done and was just for Regex Match . Luckily these are fairly easy to workaround most of the time.

Re: Regex: disable singleline option

hogi — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 14:58:22 GMT

Thanks, @jthi
I hoped the answer would be different. Interesting ...

Hm, here is the wish to fix it: