On 2011-09-06, Jefferis Peterson wrote:
Find: ^([A-Z0-9]+) (.*) [0-9]+$
Replace: \1\t\2
But without the delimiters, it processed the page perfectly.
Thanks for my first lesson in depth OBI-WAN :-)
A guess is that the the non-matching lines have some extra
whitespace at the start or end of the line. Unless I'm quite
sure about it, I don't assume that a line has no extra
whitespace, especially at the end. So when using ^ & $ in a
pattern, I tend to include an expression for "zero or more
whitespace characters", \s*, or "zero or more tabs or spaces", [
\t]*, thus:
Find: ^\s*([A-Z0-9]+) (.*) [0-9]+\*s$
Replace: \1\t\2
An additional note is the dot "." matches any character EXCEPT
the newline (\n or \r), unless you tell it otherwise*. If that
weren't the case, without the ^ & $ the above pattern would find
ONE match: everything from the first id # to the description of
the last item in the list.
(*As you move up in levels of regex , you'll encounter pattern
modifiers, which do things like allowing "." to match newline
characters or making character matches not case-sensitive.)
HTH
- Bruce
_bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_
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