Help: Rainmeter Skins • Re: Leading Zeros

I thought I could help with the regular expression by combining some steps all into the same expression:

Code:

Substitute="^(-?)(\d+)\.?(\d+)?":"+\1000\2.\3000","\\1|\\3":"",".*([-+]).*(\d{3}\.\d{2}).*":"\1\2"

But I found that zero length matches, instead of returning an empty string "", instead do not substitute.
So I had to add an additional, in my opinion unnecessary, expression to remove them:

Code:

"\\1|\\3":""

So my code ended up being just as complicated as what I was trying to replace...
I am assuming there is a reason for this design decision? It seems to go contrary to the RegEx rules...

Statistics: Posted by jsmorley — Today, 8:47 pm