More than one match/replace per filter?

[zoltan]

I had been experimenting with whenever's example and ran into the "einstein" issue ("ist" was contained in "bist") and spaces and punctuation before and after a word. So believe it or not I came up with this for the list:

Code:

Match = "$LST(Words)"

([^a-z])\2eins([^a-z])\3$SET(1=\2one\3)
([^a-z])\2zwei([^a-z])\3$SET(1=\2two\3)

Replace = "\1"

I was practically patting myself on the back until I came back here and saw JJoe's post.

Obviously there are some things I didn't anticipate or understand. Matching before checking the list makes sense for efficiency, but I don't understand some of examples B & C. Is the ">" for matching a tag? If so, why not "<" as well? And why are the prefix characters checked in the filter but the suffix characters checked in the list? How is the variable 2 set in example C? Is it insufficient to put ([^a-z]) before and after the word as in my example above? I assumed that all I needed was to retain and reinsert any characters that were not a-z.

If tag and script matches are limited and don't cause too many problems, I could overlook it. Just the discovery that multiple filters aren't needed makes this idea more appealing because the lone filter can be quickly unchecked when it's unwanted. Capitalization is an small issue, but I don't think Proxomitron can recognize case.