Regular expressions

[El_Pablo]

I think this feature could be quite useful for managing strings without coding twist.

[jamesducker]

Hear hear. We do a lot of automated typesetting stuff in FileMaker and have to write some epic workarounds (mostly passing stuff out via AppleScript to "tr", "sed" or "awk" on the command line, then back in again) that inbuilt RegEx features would solve really nicely.

J

[El_Pablo]

Since logically the next version should be out sometime next year, I hope they added this feature!

Example of usage

regExMatch ($myText; $expression)

Returns

- Nothing if no match found

- A list of matches

regExReplace ($myText; $expression; $replacementRegEx)

Returns

- The resulting string