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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Regexp: one or two functions? (KSpread)
From:       Thomas Zander <TZander () factotummedia ! nl>
Date:       2004-08-17 15:34:42
Message-ID: 20040817153442.GA9223 () factotummedia ! nl
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Maybe some examples on what the user would see/type are in order;
I'm not to sure how to find that in the patches..

All unix heads know that /foo/ is search and s/foo/bar/ is replace.
In a speadsheet something like find(a1, "foo") is normal (isn't it)
so a regex(a1, "foo", "bar") IMO is not really that silly.

more advanced regexps like
    regex(a1, "we like (carrot|beans)", "we hate $1") seem to scale well IMO.

I'm bound to have things quite wrong; please explain things (in various
short examples :) for us to open a little discussion!

Cheers!

ps; I noticed many commercial players to use 'regex' instead of 'regexp';
no idea if that comes from usability studies, but an alias might be in order here..

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:50:15AM +0200, Tomas Mecir wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I'm facing a dilemma... I have this patch adding support for regexp
> search and replace functions to KSpread, originally I wrote 'em as two
> separate functions, but then Ariya said, it should be one function,
> because that would less confuse users, so I made it one function, but
> now I'm in doubt, for that one function seems to be more confusing
> than two functions, hence I'd like to hear others' opinion, on whether
> there should be two functions (regexp search / replace), or one
> do-it-all function. Man, now that's a LONG sentence ;) Patches adding
> it in both ways attached.
> 
> / Tomas

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Thomas Zander
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