Code Assist Cont...

Hi Seth,

now that you came up with the term Regex (I was just talking about a simple * wildcard) ;-)

The old VBRegex goodie that is also available for VAST on VASTGoodies only supports Regex 1.1, which means that quantifiers like {1,5} don't work.

To me it seems like a bad thing that in a world where almost any language supports regex out of the box (I am thinking of JavaScript, Java, Ruby, Perl) there is no decent support for regular expressions in Smalltalk... At least VAST is no worse than the rest of the gang, because Vassily's goodie is used in all dialects, based on the last 1999 version.

But coming back to Code Assist: I am not sure a full blown regex support would be needed. I guess nobody will really ask for methods or classes by a pattern like [A-D|XY]*\d  ;-)))

Joachim

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Joachim,

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Hmm, actually if someone is willing to try out external libraries there are at least two up-to-date solutions available:

1) Binding for the simple code page oriented regular expressions via TRE library, documented here
2) Binding for UTF-8 oriented regular expression via ICU library

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