Scintilla line highlighting

[rndrei]

Please tell Scintilla how to highlight a line with a comment, I found information about highlighting numbers:

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reg() = "\d+"

How can I highlight a line with the "#" symbol?
I couldn't find any information on the Scintilla website...

[AZJIO]

https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewto ... 33#p599333

[boddhi]

Please tell Scintilla how to highlight a line with a comment, I found information about highlighting numbers:

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reg() = "\d+"

How can I highlight a line with the "#" symbol?

Assuming your request is for RegEx, a comment example would have been helpful to refine it!
So, exclusively for lines beginning with # :

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reg() = "^#.*"

[rndrei]

Yes, thanks, that's what I need

[rndrei]

where can I get a complete list of regex codes?

[AZJIO]

Google?
https://scite-ru.bitbucket.io/pack/doc/SciTERegEx.html - it's not objective, it's SciTE, not Scintilla

https://azjio.narod.ru/regexp/RegExpEn.htm - This is a PCRE engine, and Scintilla has a very stripped-down engine.

Instead of \b, use "\<" and "\>" (word boundaries). Instead of the range [a-zA-Z]+ you need to use [qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnmQWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM]+
No forward and backward preview (?<=...) and (?=...)
No OR sign "|" to highlight a set of keywords, you need to specify each one separately

[rndrei]

thank you, otherwise I couldn’t find the information

[rndrei]

I can't figure it out! If two words are needed, then what kind of construction will it be?

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reg()="(text_first|text_second)"

[Demivec]

I can't figure it out! If two words are needed, then what kind of construction will it be?

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reg()="(text_first|text_second)"

Do two separate searches.

[rndrei]

I need one search

[spikey]

The solution you presented should work, if you're searching for specific words. What sort of problem were you having? Or what string that you expected to match, didn't?

Can I recommend you bookmark https://regex101.com/. It's a reference site for various flavours of regex, testing sandpit and will even explain and try to debug your regexes too, all in a webpage, for free and you don't even need to sign up... Oh and there's a searchable list of other people's solutions to various problems too.

[Demivec]

@Spikey: Scintilla's base implementation of regular expressions is simple and limited. For example it doesn't implement the 'I' for matching OR expressions. AZJIO mentioned a few other limitations in his earlier post as well.

https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#Searching

[rndrei]

I can't figure out how to make an exception?
For example, all words except those ending with the symbol ";"
The example does not work:

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regex()\re = "[a-zA-Z](^;)"

[rndrei]

Got it! If anyone is interested, it will be like this:

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 regex()\re = "[a-zA-Z]+[;]"

[AZJIO]

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[a-zA-Z]++(?!;)