Breaking the ice . . .

[GreyHead]

I guess that there has to be a first post here.

I tried to use Easy Pattern helper yesterday and ran into blank. I tried the Reference but while I could see the bits of what I wanted to do I couldn't work out how to srting them together.

I'm trying to change the header blocks in a whole bunch of about 500 php files. With plain text lines this works fine. Then I came to this:

// $Id: index.php,v 1.4 2004/05/16 14:04:19 greyhead Exp $
/**

-where the blue bit is variable. That I want to replace with this:

/**
// $Id: index.php,v 1.4 2004/05/16 14:04:19 greyhead Exp $
*

I could find the string OK, but completely failed to get groups capture to work

Bob

[DataMystic Support]

Hi Bob,

I guess the obvious question is- what is your EasyPattern?

And what perl regex did EPHelper convert it to? Are you using v1.3?

[Guest]

Are you using v1.3?

No, I was on 1.1 - got the 1,3 update e-mail this morning.

Using 1.3 I got it to work OK . . .

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// $Id:[(oneOrMore chars)1]$

worked like a dream.

Bob[/quote]

[DataMystic Support]

Great! The handling of [char] was broken in v1.1.

You can also capture text in a more natural way using

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// $Id:[capture(oneOrMore chars)]$

rather than using ()1