[X] Replace with Regular Expression

[loveMusique]

Hi Florian,

an example in German:
Alt-5
Feld:
NETRADIOSTATION
Regulärer Ausdruck:
^.*$
Treffer ersetzen durch:
Jamendo

Execution examples:

1. Field is empty — Result: Field is still empty.
2. Field is not empty — Result: Field's content = "Jamendo"

IMHO this is a bug.

Ciao,
Andreas

[Sebastian_Mares]

Something else - why does using ".*" as expression lead to the replacement string to be inserted twice?

[Florian]

Execution examples:

1. Field is empty — Result: Field is still empty.
2. Field is not empty — Result: Field's content = "Jamendo"

I'm using boost::regex as regular expression library which matches the null string when using the dot notation. My interpretation of this behaviour is, that a null string has neither a line begin ^ nor a line end $ so that the empty string isn't matched.

If the source string isn't empty, everything works as expected (also the null string isn't matched due to ^ and $).

Something else - why does using ".*" as expression lead to the replacement string to be inserted twice?

This should now be very straightforward given the explanation above. Both the null string and the actual string are matched resulting in a duplication of the replace string.

Evil beasts, those regular expressions

[loveMusique]

Is your boost::regex different from Perl Regular Expressions?
I am just curious...
I am using Perl regexp since ages now - but as you said - still surprised from time to time...

LoL

[loveMusique]

Something else - why does using ".*" as expression lead to the replacement string to be inserted twice?

At least this won't happen in Perl regexp, because ".*" always matches the whole string, "^" (begin) and "$" (end) included...

So much more experience with mp3tag::regexp is expected from me...

Ciao,
Andreas

[loveMusique]

This should now be very straightforward given the explanation above. Both the null string and the actual string are matched resulting in a duplication of the replace string.

I am not happy with this explanation...

Ciao,
Andreas