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Posted by Boxknife   (19 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Sun 23 Nov 2008 11:38 PM (UTC)
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I want to write a trigger that highlights everything between quotation marks. Right now I have a trigger set to fire on "*", but it only highlights the quotation marks themselves. I want the trigger to highlight everything in between, too.

How do I do that?
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (22,975 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #1 on Sun 23 Nov 2008 11:49 PM (UTC)
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Can you show us the trigger please:

http://mushclient.com/copying
- Nick Gammon

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Posted by Boxknife   (19 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #2 on Mon 24 Nov 2008 12:53 AM (UTC)
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<triggers>
<trigger
custom_colour="2"
enabled="y"
group="Highlighted Words"
ignore_case="y"
keep_evaluating="y"
match="\&quot;*\&quot;"
regexp="y"
repeat="y"
sequence="90"
other_text_colour="silver"
>
</trigger>
</triggers>

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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (22,975 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #3 on Mon 24 Nov 2008 02:45 AM (UTC)
Message
Change it to:


<triggers>
  <trigger
   custom_colour="2"
   enabled="y"
   group="Highlighted Words"
   ignore_case="y"
   keep_evaluating="y"
   match="\&quot;.*\&quot;"
   regexp="y"
   repeat="y"
   sequence="90"
   other_text_colour="silver"
  >
  </trigger>
</triggers>


You need a dot before the *, because .* means "any number of anything".
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (22,975 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #4 on Mon 24 Nov 2008 04:36 AM (UTC)
Message
You might also want to change from:


".*"


to:


".*?"


The question mark makes the match "less greedy" which will make a difference if you have two lots of quoted things in a single line.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Boxknife   (19 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #5 on Mon 24 Nov 2008 02:43 PM (UTC)
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This works! Thanks.
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