Regular Expressions

Bob Diebel

Although your search capability is very good, in view of the number of folks using your software who are also

heavily into other computer software, and maybe even making a living there, I would strongly suggest making

regular expressions available as eSword does.

Thanx.

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Graham Criddle

Hi Bob

Is there particular functionality you are looking for?

Are you familiar with the capabilities outlined at http://wiki.logos.com/Detailed_Search_Help?

Graham

Donnie Hale

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/475998#Comment_475998

Are you familiar with the capabilities outlined at http://wiki.logos.com/Detailed_Search_Help?

None of that gives you the ability to do what regular expressions allow you to do. I'm with Bob - I was just thinking a couple of nights ago that I wish I could search using regular expressions. In my case, I was trying to make a visual filter for the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. It looks like some fundamental issues exists there (e.g. the search text ". " - period followed by space, with our without the quotes - doesn't appear to be valid). But what I'd really have liked to do is specify a regular expression. Another one I've been wanting to do is search for the English phrase "gospel of {next single word}", such that whatever that next single word is shows as part of the matched expression (highlighted, etc.). Fairly trivial with a regular expression.

My $.02 ...

Donnie

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/476001#Comment_476001

OT:

It looks like some fundamental issues exists there (e.g. the search text ". " - period followed by space, with our without the quotes - doesn't appear to be valid)

The reason for this is that in reality you don't search the fulltext of the books in your library, but the index which consists of the words in the books - without punctuation. Thus there is no ". " in the index and Logos would strip it from the search strings to allow for matching.

Bob Diebel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/475998#Comment_475998

Thanx for you input. I will look there, and learn what I can. But to be clear, this post is not about what there is no way to do in Logos.

It is about more and more people in the newer generations being computer savvy... wanting to go with standards.

Stepping into the world of programming, these dear ones will learn RegExp's whether programming in perl, python, PCRE, .NET java, javascript, ruby,

and more. They will learn RegExp's and not want every software suite they approach to re-invent the wheel by doing it their own way.

Ignoring standards is not a good idea long term. Even giants like IBM and HP had to eventually bow to the pressure of UNIX/Linux, and AIX and HP-UX were born.

This does not have to replace what logos has, just augment it.

Having said that, I would double what Logos has would do all RegExp's can do.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/476317#Comment_476317

While it is an excellent idea for Logos to explore what could be gained by regular expressions, it has a trade off with Logos' tagging that makes it more complex than it originally appears. Logos has experimented with ways to make it's data more searchable to advanced (computer savvy-wise) user and I expect it to continue to do so.