Is there any way to filter Variable to escape RegEx special characters? Only I would like to pick Up the name in my document. I tried to use Expressions.app, RegExRX and regex.app., yesterday in this master.tex using in parallel with simplest command as bellow : \documentclass{jarticle} \begin{do…

Hey @boehmflute, The best way to pose a regular expression question is to provide a real-world sample text and a sample text of the desired result. The backslash is the escape character in regular expressions. To make this task simpler I'd make multiple passes. 1) Find the data: Find Pattern: \…

Hey @boehmflute , By the way – @JMichaelTX 's macro in the previous thread shows how to escape special characters in a regular expression. He even cites @DanThomas as the originator: Filter Variable to escape regular expression special characters Of course reading regular expressions is like readi…

Just for fun... Finding the requisite strings with the command line utility sed: Find SubStrings in Text -- Sed -- Latex File Names v1.00.kmmacros (5.9 KB) [image] Finding the requisite strings with Perl: Find SubStrings in Text -- Perl -- Latex File Names v1.00.kmmacros (5.9 KB) [image] -Chr…

Here's one that uses AppleScriptObjC and attempts to make the guts of the process less of a burden to the user. The user need only supply the data source, the find pattern and the return pattern. Although they might want to change the display in window result of the Execute an AppleScript Action t…

Dear ccstone, Thank you for your polite explanation.I am very encouraged. How to use a RegEX has come a bit light for me. I would like to use macros that you created, as soon as possible. Since I was thinking,".tex" as an extension only , I was at a loss as to how to judge.I just learned "to sea…

[image] boehmflute: Currently I am studying Jeffrey Friedl: "Mastering Regular Expressions". Hey @boehmflute , I really don't recommend that book to beginners. Friedl is very learnèd, but his book and writing style is not really for neophytes (in my opinion). Check out the references on our…

[image] boehmflute: How do I pick a file from a specific folder? You can easily do this with either a native KM Action, or script: [image] tell application "Finder" set filePosixPath to POSIX path of (choose file with prompt #~withPromptValue~# ¬ of type #~ofTypeValueList~# ¬ de…

Dear JMichaelTX, Thank you for your gracious answer. I will read your explanation carefully and once again. Thank you for always having meaningful advices. Best regards, WAKAMATSU (boehmflute)

Finding File Names in a LaTex Document with a Regular Expression

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