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2015/03/04 07:06:53 (permalink)

Regex -- any Documentation?

Hi, I'm new around here. Two problems:
I've looked at some examples, but not one of them specifies a replacement with placeholders/variables. Problem is this: in German, the pronunciation of a time span (e.g. 11:30-12:00) uses a wrong word (probably because the English Language only uses "to" for many situations, while German is more specific.) So, I would like to do something like this:
Pattern: ([0-9:]*)-([0:9]*)
Replace: $1 bis $2
The idea being that the round bracketed parts are replaced in the positions 1 and 2, while the "-" is replaced by "bis"
It does not work, but I assume that I'm just using the wrong syntax or the special character is not "$".
 
My second problem is a little odd. First, I do not know which app automatically speaks my events. Second, if this actually is @Voice aloud, it keeps telling me a location for the event that is a constant for all events, even for those which have no location.
Any help you can give me?
Thanks, Rolf
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    Re: Regex -- any Documentation? 2015/03/04 07:40:45 (permalink)
    Hi Rolf,
    the correct RegEx expression for what you want to do is:
     
    (\d+:\d+)(\s*-\s*)(\d+:\d+)
     
    and the "Replace":
     
    $1 bis $3
     
    The app that speaks events is not @Voice, but something else. Maybe the calendar app, or something else, I don't know what - I don't use this feature. You would need to adjust any settings for this in that other app.
     
    Greg
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