On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:48:41 -0500, Sheri silvermoonwoman@comcast.net wrote:

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This is mostly an issue for regedit (a component of Windows); if you use regedit to export:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Edi Weitz\The Regex Coach\Panes

the exported strings are corrupted in the resulting .reg file when they contain CRLFs.

OK, I see. Unfortunately, there's no easy way for me to change that. (And I think it's a pretty esoteric usage of Regex Coach anyway... :)

I did finally figure out how to update such strings in the registry using a reg file, the strings must be converted to unicode, encoded in hex, and specified as hex(1) in the .reg file. This is necessary with WIndows XP, I'm not sure if the unicode part is needed for earlier versions of Windows. But despite the fact that with effort you can store CRLFs in REG_SZ strings, you cannot use regedit to export them. It seems REG_SZ strings were not designed to hold multiline strings. However, I consider my issue to be resolved.

OK, good.

I do have a question/suggestion about the GUI for The Regex Coach.

I see the underlined letters in Regular Expression (r), Target String (t), Replacement String (p) and Replacement Result (l). Do they have any significance? It would be nice if there were associated keyboard shortcuts to set the focus inside those respective panes.

I have to admit that I don't know why the GUI toolkit I'm using (CAPI) added the underlined letters there. You're right - it's seems they're doing nothing. I'll investigate this for the next release.

Cheers, Edi.