I somehow managed to make this weeks Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

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I was very surprised to see that my post on ***= in regular expressions (one of only two I've made since getting offline news reading setup last week) made it into this weeks Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!.

For those unfamilliar with Tcl-URL!, it is a weekly digest summarising the best of comp.lang.tcl, the Tcl'ers Wiki and other community resources. Good reading, especially if you don't have time to follow the newsgroup & wiki closely.

—Michael A. Cleverly

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Will Duquette: [ mail | www | link ]

Michael,

Actually, the "***=" trick turns out to quite useful. The text widget's search feature searches on regular expressions; if you want to search on a plain text string entered by the user, you have to make sure to quote all of the special regexp characters--or just prepend "***=", once you know the trick.

Thanks to you and Tcl-URL, now I do. :-)

Thu, 16 Jun 2005, 17:51

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