[mr_sonicblue]

I was considering using grep to add a regular-expression find to my Cocoa script editor (for obvious "why write it if a free version already exists" reasons). But, grep seems to only be capable of giving me the byte offsets of lines the containing a match, and the line itself.

Is there a way to force it to output where the matches actually are on the line?

How about using awk?

Or another program?

[honeydew]

You might be interested in the OFRegularExpression class provided by the OmniFoundation framework. I haven't used it but it looks pretty straightforward. You can find the Omni frameworks with source code at Omni's web site (seems to be down at the moment).

Let me know if it works!


Edit: Omni's site is back up. http://www.omnigroup.com/community/d...er/sourcecode/

[ 06-03-2001: Message edited by: honeydew ]

[IamBob]

What about TextExtras? I think (hope) that's what it's called. I know it has some form of search functionality. I think it's done as an NSFormatter.

Maybe I'll go re-find it..sorry no link or "hard" info.

[Angus_D]

I'm pretty sure there's some simple searching functionality in NSString itself, but I'm by no means certain. AHHHHH exams in an hour and a half or so... ahhhhhhhh.

[honeydew]

I'm pretty sure there's some simple searching functionality in NSString itself

Yes, but searching is the easy part. Parsing the regular expression syntax and compiling the state machine is difficult. OFRegularExpression does all this for you.