Using regular
expressions allows for more flexible find operations.
Situations in which regular expressions can be useful include:
· |
find
texts containing general patterns such as:
– |
"more than one subsequent
whitespace character": \s{2,}. |
– |
"repeated words":
(\w+)\W\1. |
|
· |
find
texts ending in a given pattern, e.g., lastword$. |
· |
find
texts containing characters other than from a given set,
e.g.,
[^a-zA-Z\d\.,;\s]. |
· |
provide
alternatives or options for finding texts, e.g.,
U(SA|K) or
colou?r. |
· |
find texts containing
Unicode characters
that cannot
be entered directly on the local computer, e.g.,
\u30d0\u30fc\u30b8\u30e7\u30f3\u60c5\u5831 (which
is "about" in Japanese). |
Note
that when using the regular expression option you can also specify
the Match case option.
When the Use regular expression
option (Find Text dialog
box) is checked, RC-WinTrans will also return text table entries
with submatches, i.e., the match does not have to cover the whole
text table item.
For
a full reference of the regular expression syntax available in
this dialog refer to "Regular Expression
Language Elements." |