"\0" useable?
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@ spiff or vdrfan

Is it possible to use \0 for the entire capture while using \1-\9 as the group captures? Say I wanted to create a filenamescrape and the Filename was "Final Contact 3" for instance, and i wanted to set the "set" for sequel movie...

Could i do something like

Code:
<RegExp input="$$1" output="<title>\0</title><set>\1</set>" dest="5">
     <expression>[^0-9]+ ([0-9]+)</expression>
</RegExp>

reason i ask exactley, is because when getting results, from a webpage, one is almost always limited to using 1 RegExp to capture the entirety of the
entities on the page, which limits the number of info you can pull for each item to 9, i have run into an instance where i (and this is mainly for personal use at the moment) am wanting to pull 9 captures and the save the entire capture group itself too. I was just wondering about the possibility of using the \0 rather than nesting more regular expressions.

or do you use \0 for something in your regular expression engine?
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#2
uhm, it's defined in regexps as \& no? why introduce a nonstandard beast?
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well i couldn't find the definition used so i supposed it didn't exist, thanks for straightening that out for me
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Nicezia Wrote:Is it possible to use \0 for the entire capture while using \1-\9 as the group captures? Say I wanted to create a filenamescrape and the Filename was "Final Contact 3" for instance, and i wanted to set the "set" for sequel movie...
Could i do something like
Code:
<RegExp input="$$1" output="<title>\0</title><set>\1</set>" dest="5">
     <expression>[^0-9]+ ([0-9]+)</expression>
</RegExp>

Try this instead:
Code:
<RegExp input="$$1" output="<title>\1</title><set>\2</set>" dest="5">
     <expression>([^0-9]+ ([0-9]+))</expression>
</RegExp>

Edit:
Oops, I did not read the end of your post...
However, one could nest RegExp tags, so I do not get this one RegExp thing...
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