yooMatch 1.0 : yoo can do regular expressions

yooMatch brings you the power to search and manipulate text in FileMaker using pattern matching with regular expressions.

For those new to pattern matching, regular expressions offer an extremely powerful and concise way to describe what you're looking for. Once you get acquainted with using regular expressions, you'll never be able to do without them again.

Of course, yooMatch is very good at doing the traditional sort of find & replace operations that everyone is familiar with. What is most notable, however, is the simplicity with which yooMatch can find things that would be nearly impossible to find without the power of regular expressions.

To give you a taste for the sort of search that yooMatch handles with aplomb, imagine trying to find all the phone numbers in a body of text. It's easy to type in a particular phone number and search for it, but how would you go about searching for any phone number?

With standard search tools, this example may seem like a daunting task. However, with regular expressions in your arsenal, you'll quickly come to view it as trivial.

yooMatch allows you to describe the properties of what you're looking for as a pattern, like:

	"three digits, then a hyphen, then four digits"

This simple pattern will match any of the 10,000,000 possible seven-digit phone numbers, and can be concisely written in regular expression form as:

	\d{3}-\d{4}

With little additional effort, this example could be extended to take into account optional area codes, extensions, and other variations.

From needs as simple as find & replace, to extracting information like dates and email addresses, to parsing complex reports or specially formatted text like XML and HTML, yooMatch is up to the task.

Users of yooMatch will learn how to easily describe even complex patterns with regular expressions, and will be pleasantly surprised at how quickly it becomes second nature.

yooMatch uses the same popular syntax for regular expressions as the Perl programming language. Using Perl compatible regular expressions ensures that users of yooMatch will find that their fluency in regular expressions translates well between FileMaker and other settings.

As your familiarity with yooMatch grows, you will be amazed by the infinite variety of ways to use it, and the fundamental way in which it extends your ability to do meaningful work in FileMaker.

If you work with text in FileMaker, yooMatch may quickly become your single most indespensible tool for getting the job done.