T-Rex for Delphi by Prodigy Computing: How-To

Regular-Expression Based Textfile Parser for Delphi

How You Use T-Rex

Using T-Rex is really easy.

  1. Create a T_Rex nonvisual component on your form.
  2. Point it at the textfile you want to parse, using Filespec.
  3. Specify the patterns that you are looking for in MatchPattern, using the same standard regular expressions that you're used to in the Delphi IDE (and if you need a tutorial on them, relax!, it's included).
  4. Write a handler for the OnMatch event.
  5. Tell T-Rex to Scan your file.
That's it!

With T-Rex, text parsers almost write themselves!



by Paul Keating keating@acm.org.
Copyright © 1996 by Prodigy Computing
T-Rex is a protected name of Prodigy Computing
$Revision: 1.4 $ $Date: 14 Dec 1996 15:35:36 $