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Orc · 04-07-2008, 03:46 AM

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Originally Posted by delayedinsanity

"\t" is the special character for tabs, so you could do something like

/\t+?(.*)/

perhaps, or if it's a specific amount of whitespace, such as 4 spaces, maybe

/\s{4}(.*)/

etc... does this help at all? The (.*) would be replaced with whatever else you're attemping to match, of course.
-m

Well its the problem of a persons indentation, I've been wanting ot make a syntax highlighter, but if someone has sloppy indentation, I can't do a successful pattern replacement, it just turns black v_v.

Unless, I do separate pattern matches for each set of keywords for syntax like "if condition then else", well I could chunk it out for pattern matching :D