regular expressions in scripting, please

Please.

Pretty Please.

Pretty Please With Sugar On Top.

SubStringIndex and StringLength work, but a regex would be soooo sweet =)

I must admiit I was never a master of regular expressions, but I did love my tricks for Vi.

Adding some regular expression like system would be really nice for parsing chat channels for commands and communication between objects.

I just figured they would be added in due course.... obviously we need this. Just adding my voice.

While I agree that this would be useful, a full regex engine would be a HUGE load on the simulator (I imagine), and the functionality that most people would use, most of the time is available through the existing string functions. (What I mean is that it is already possible to do all the things you need to do, regexes would just be another way to do it).

So, if I get a vote, it goes to either not adding regexes, or adding a very limited regex engine, maybe just with ! * and . matching.

Everybody gets a vote =)

I can live with very limited. The SubStringIndex/StringLength dealie works beautifully, btw =)

It would just be so much easier using a regex.

I highly support this idea. Regexp functionality would be a very nice addition.

I say support full Perl-compatible regular expressions. The PCRE library is free, and should be fairly simple to add to the LSL VM.

(For an example of what regular expressions can be abused to do, check out my signature. It's a program to print all prime numbers, which does the math in base 1, courtesy of the power of regular expressions.)