Vortex - Rex - books, learning resources

[roboto]

Is there any book or learning resources for Rex except manual? Some examples, theory behind it?

[mark]

Sorry, no books. The tutorial goes over it briefly:
http://www.thunderstone.com/texis/site/ ... vxrex.html
Other than that it's mainly the manual and this message board.

[John]

Url?

[mark]

Oops, wrong url the first time. Here's the right one.
http://www.thunderstone.com/texis/site/ ... vxrex.html

[roboto]

Thanks for answer mark. I am now more familiar with rex after searching through this message board(it is great!).
But topic about rex in manual is still not well covered.

[mark]

Thanks for the input. Given the documentation below what specific or general topics do you feel are missing or could be improved upon?

http://www.thunderstone.com/site/texism ... ssion.html

http://www.thunderstone.com/site/texism ... yntax.html or http://www.thunderstone.com/site/vortex ... yntax.html

http://www.thunderstone.com/site/texism ... ators.html or http://www.thunderstone.com/site/vortex ... ition.html

http://www.thunderstone.com/site/texism ... ntary.html or http://www.thunderstone.com/site/vortex ... ntary.html

http://www.thunderstone.com/site/vortex ... sions.html

[roboto]

This is just my opinion, but this page would be more useful with more examples

http://www.thunderstone.com/site/vortex ... sions.html

Also I think, maybe I'm wrong, that this regular expression '>>(=!)+)' from your example is not correct.

[mark]

Yes, more examples are always good.

That expression is ok.

>>(= : look for an open paren then
!)+ : match anything but close paren then
) : match close paren

!)+ could also be coded as [^)]+
For single characters you can go either way. But for a string you need !, as in >><td>=!</td>+</td>

[roboto]

But that expression doesnt match text between parentheses.
It matches text with parentheses. Something like this would return text between parentheses '>>(\P=!)+'

[mark]

Correct. Whether the parens are desired as part of the data varies.

To ensure that there is a matching paren but not include either paren in the data use

>>(\P=!)+\F)