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dbenham wrote:Example 1: Store the last word of input.txt in variable lastWord.

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call jrepl \s+ "" /match /f input.txt /rtn lastWord:-1

'\s' should be '\S' (upper case).

Both links worked for me. You're right. I don't know what happened the first time. I'm sure I copied the URL correctly, because it worked when I pasted it at the Internet Archive. Nevertheless, both sites say 'This documentation is archived and is not being maintained', and have links to the 'Recom...

I would have liked to have implemented that feature, but it is problematic. The replace method that is central to the entire utility does not report whether a match was found. It does not even report whether a change was made. The only way I can detect a change is by comparing the before and after ...

Thanks for the replies. Your test 4 returned [errorlevel=]1 in my environment. It definitely returns 0 on the computer I was using, which is running 32-bit Windows XP. I checked on a computer running 64-bit Windows 10, and on that it returns 1. That behavior is by design (and documented). Strangely ...

JREPL V4.5 can return errorlevel=1 when the new text is the same as the original text. This is a problem for me because I want to update the (internal) revision date in various files, and I don't want it to register as a failure just because I've previously updated the file on the same day. Here's s...