Re: Compare showing sequence number differences - offtopic

Open a member from the iProjects using the "Text Editor", in find
capture whatever you want and replace with whatever you want BUT put \R
for each new line replaced / added.

Example:
Before:
001000000000 // MOD# PCR# PGMR DATE DESCRIPTION

Find / Replace:
(00100)(0)(000000 // MOD# PCR# PGMR DATE DESCRIPTION)
$1$2$3\R$19$3\R

After:
001000000000 // MOD# PCR# PGMR DATE DESCRIPTION
001009000000 // MOD# PCR# PGMR DATE DESCRIPTION


Thanks, Matt

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Nice, Paul - I'm glad to be corrected - maybe it's always been there,
but the help was not helpful, as I recall.

I realized I should've explained the backslash quoting the TextPad uses
- next time, eh?

I'll definitely take a look again - and I hope there's a special code
for newline and all that.

Thanks
Vern

On 3/14/2012 8:47 AM, Paul Bailey wrote:

The \1 capturing group replacement stumped me at first, until I

realised it was $1 not \1 for the first replacement, $2 for the second,
etc. I'm not sure when this appeared, I can't see it documented
anywhere, and I can't remember where I saw it first, but it works.
Google says it has been mentioned before on WDSCI-L back in 2006:
http://archive.midrange.com/wdsci-l/200605/msg00295.html

Some flavours of regular expression differ in minor ways, I guess. The

RDP help pages take you to the java.util.regex.Pattern javadoc for
regular expression help, but the capturing group replacement values
aren't right, so maybe there are other minor differences. (Such as the
inability to use \n as a replacement value.) I wonder if these are bugs
or misleading/erroneous documentation.

-Paul.



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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Compare showing sequence number differences

Hi Paul

I've found that things like \1 for preserving found text are not

available in replacement strings - that's the main thing - searching is
pretty good, replacing is lacking.

Now maybe there's more in 8.03 - I've not explored that - have they

improved the support?

I'm in the LPEX editor - it seems that maybe the Eclipse editor is

better, but I've never used that for RPG or CL source.

I'll reply privately on the RTC stuff, at least for now. No biggie.

Vern

On 3/14/2012 7:20 AM, Paul Bailey wrote:

The regex features in RDP are reasonably good. What kind of regex

statement requires you to move source outside of RDP? I can't work out
inserting newlines, but everything else seems to work as you'd expect.

Incidentally, you mentioned moving to Rational Team Concert in one of

your recent posts. I'd be very interested to hear about your experiences
with installing and using RTC with RDP (and iProjects) as we are also
considering it but the move to iProjects is putting me off researching
too much further. Do you have a blog or something to write that kind of
report up on?

-Paul


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Client

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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Compare showing sequence number differences

:-) I hear you - the eclipse compare is very nice for regular text
files, although I still use TextPad for that - I have not seen a

side-by-side compare in Textpad, but it does show diffs. I'm sure things
like Notepad II or whatever the name are similar.

Trouble with comparing source -without SourceLanding's tool - is just

what was described here - source dates are involved. This uses the
Eclipse compare, I believe.

Now there is another compare tool - it is under the Edit menu - I

just went looking, because I thought it was there. I think it's like the
old CODE compare tool - it might be the LPEX editor tool - the one that
the setting to ignore sequence numbers might relate to.

The latter tool is not accessible from a right-click on the member

name, so far as I can see - I had to go to the Edit menu - there may be
a shortcut, I don't know after a quick look-see.

But take a look at this one - it shows the changes intermingled in

pink (red)and yellow highlighting.

BTW, I use Textpad for Search/Replace - I copy a block of source

there, then use the really powerful regex functionality there, then copy
the block back in to the LPEX editor.

HTH
Vern