Syntax question
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- Subject: [mg116066] Syntax question
- From: Chris Degnen <degnen at cwgsy.net>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 06:50:50 -0500 (EST)
Can anyone say what the exclamation mark is doing in the example below?: StringReplace["acgttttccctgagcataaaaacccagcaatacg", RegularExpression["a..c."] :> "\!\(\*StyleBox[\"$0\",FontSize->14,FontWeight->\"Bold\"]\)"] The example is from An Introduction to Programming with M., page 163. The commentary reads: "... we use a regular expression to look for the pattern consisting of the character "a" repeated one or more times, followed by the character "c", followed by any character. The StringReplace function then replaces any expression matching this pattern with a large, bold formatted expression. The "$0" is used to refer to the matched pattern."