Sometimes it’s good to be lazy!
I love regular expressions, but it’s very easy to make a mistake if you don’t test well enough.
A found a good example of this recently where I was trying to find a specific attribute from a tag.
I used a regexp something like “(.+)” which works fine… until you end up getting more than one tag on the same line! The reason being that .+ is greedy…. it will keep going until it can’t find another “. This means it skips over the first closing ” and moves on to the next.
The solution was to make it lazy by using .+? instead!
Apologies for the fact this post seems slightly pointles, I’m actually testing a new plugin we’ve got for integrating wordpress in to swim.
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Dug
said on 17 July 2008Hi, will SWIM have support for typepad/movabletype or other bloggin platforms?
Mark
said on 20 July 2008Dug,
We have a lot of plans for a lot of platforms… :)
Movabletype is definitely one of them. It took three days to get Wordpress in, although with more time it could probably be even better. I can’t imagine MT taking any longer, we need to find someone who knows MT well to integrate, the SWiM side of things is a piece of cake.
Know anyone?
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