Posted in | Posted on 03-21-2007 | 2,153 views
I love you guys so much that I spent my lunch not just watching the Young and the Restless, but also improving my ugly little Apollo Regex Checker. (Ok, so I did watch Y and R while I coded.)
This new version now uses HTML mark up to show your matches, and lets you toggle between one match and multiple matches.
I have to say I really went down the wrong path trying to get my regex working right. Turns out there was a much simpler way to mark up the matches. This is my new AS code:
1private function testRegex():void {
2 var regexStr:String = regex.text;
3 var bodyStr:String = body.text;
4 var options:String = "";
5
6 if(regexStr == '' || bodyStr == '') {
7 mx.controls.Alert.show("Please enter a regex and a body.");
8 return;
9 }
10
11 if(global.selected) options = "g";
12
13 var regexOb:RegExp = new RegExp(regexStr,options);
14
15 //any matches?
16 if(!regexOb.test(bodyStr)) return;
17
18 body.htmlText = bodyStr.replace(regexOb,"<b>$&</b>");
19
20}
2 var regexStr:String = regex.text;
3 var bodyStr:String = body.text;
4 var options:String = "";
5
6 if(regexStr == '' || bodyStr == '') {
7 mx.controls.Alert.show("Please enter a regex and a body.");
8 return;
9 }
10
11 if(global.selected) options = "g";
12
13 var regexOb:RegExp = new RegExp(regexStr,options);
14
15 //any matches?
16 if(!regexOb.test(bodyStr)) return;
17
18 body.htmlText = bodyStr.replace(regexOb,"<b>$&</b>");
19
20}
Next will be a version that lets you test replacements as well.
By the way - Apollo notices if you run the same AIR twice. It asks you if you want to replace the old version. Sweet.
