Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:05 AM.

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system.verbs.builtins.re.testing.grep

local (theList = {"aa", "aab", "a", "ab", ""});
local (patternRef);

patternRef = re.compile ("^aa");
dialog.notify (re.grep (patternRef, theList));
dialog.notify (re.grep (patternRef, theList, flIncludeMatches:false));
dialog.notify (re.grep (patternRef, re.join (cr, theList) + cr));
dialog.notify (re.grep (patternRef, re.join (cr, theList) + cr, flIncludeMatches:false))

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This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.