Hi Rick,

I'm doing some complex text parsing. I've worked out the regex for both the filter and the replace via an external regex tool. The replace is using native regex capture group. Now I'm trying to take that back to VFP using wwRegEx. However, based on what I see in the wwRegEx help, this is not possible, and a little test I wrote confirms that.

FWIW I can get this to work using Craig Boyd's regexp.fll but I recently deprecated that in favor of wwRegEx. Is there a fancier way to get to more native regex replace functionality perhaps via dotNetBridge? Or any other suggestions?

TIA

Yes there's replace functionality in .NET's reg ex engine. Not sure offhand what would be needed but the functionality is definitely there.

The shell regex support (which is what wwRegEx used) is pretty sparse and has all sorts of issues since it's ancient and based on an old VB engine. It works but there are limitations obviously.

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Thanks. I assume you have no current plans to refactor wwRegEx to provide a path to the .Net regex engine.

Not on my end - too busy to get this done off the clock at the moment...

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