Brian H.

Not sure why [regex] is processing the text from a [msg] box as-expected, but not when read from a text file (with [text]). I tried adding a [tosymbol], but it did not resolve it. Ideas? I've copied part of the patch below, but also attached the text file I'm using. I'm simply trying to reverse the index & data from a simple [coll]...

Hi all,
Not sure why [regex] is processing the text from a [msg] box as-expected, but not when read from a text file (with [text]).  I tried adding a [tosymbol], but it did not resolve it.  Ideas?  I've copied part of the patch below, but also attached the text file I'm using.  I'm simply trying to reverse the index & data from a simple [coll]...

regex-problem

If all you want is to reverse index and data from well formatted [coll], it's easier to dump it, reverse keys with values and save to a new coll:

Hmm...that *is* easy, thanks! Something that accommodates more general situations would get a bit more involved. The reason I used [regex] is because I had already written a more 'tolerant' reg expression I was using in BBEdit. I then found I also wanted it to work within Max, so I thought I could just tweak the existing expression fairly quickly and it would work. It didn't, so I was wondering why-- [regex] would be more useful if the Max documentation was more complete.

Hmm...that *is* easy, thanks!  Something that accommodates more general situations would get a bit more involved.  The reason I used [regex] is because I had already written a more 'tolerant' reg expression I was using in BBEdit.  I then found I also wanted it to work within Max, so I thought I could just tweak the existing expression fairly quickly and it would work.  It didn't, so I was wondering why-- [regex] would be more useful if the Max documentation was more complete.


[regex] problem...