Re: Confused first time Kate user

On 07/03/2024 06:46 AM, Kenny McCormack wrote:

In article <v63bs4$25m5u$1@dont-email.me>,
Richard Owlett  <rowlett@access.net> wrote:
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This regex expression should do what you want:
[[:digit:]]{3}
>

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I suspect that would accept a value of "0".
*ERROR* with results I don't wish to contemplate.

 I suspect that what you want to do actually can't be done (accurately) with
regexps, if we interpret your requirements literally.  Most responders so
far have pretty much glossed over your requirements.

You noticed < *GRIN* >
Unfortunately that's fairly common on USENET.
I'm used to windowing "wheat" from "chaff".

 For example, while
you want to match (and replace) XYZ299, you want to leave XYZ300 alone.

Actually its more the case  that for _my_ application XYZ300 and above physically cannot exist.

 You probably need a programming languages (such as AWK) to do this correctly.

No. Further in this thread Janis Papanagnou demonstrated what I needed.

 Note, BTW, that the real problem with regexps is that there are so many
different implementations.  Supposedly, there is a standard - actually,
multiple standards - but each implementation is subtly different.  For
example, sometimes you need \ before special characters like ( or { or ?
and sometimes you don't (depending on which implementation you are using).
 

Yepp.
That's why my "Subject:" AND first sentence explicitly reference Kate.