Am 05.10.2011 um 5, 19:52 schrieb Løseth Tor Rafsol:
>>> Any suggestion on how to negate this expression so that it finds all the
>>> words that are not 6 characters long?
>>
>> If you think about it another way, you want to find words that are either
>> 1-5 characters long or 7+ characters long:
>>
>> ^(?:\w{1,5}|\w{7,})$
> Thank you for that one Ronald, it did the trick :)
>
> But are there really no other way to do it with a caret or assertion?
> Just to keep complexity/readability down. Not that this one qualified for
> that ;-)
In my humble opinion every regular expression shorter than 25 characters
qualifies per se as simple and readable :-)
Now, trying to give an answer to your question: I'm not sure if there is a
simpler solution of expressing your intended search. But: Why not combine your
original search pattern ^[\w]{6}$ (or the slightly shorter version ^.{6}$ )
with BBEdit's fine "Text > Process Lines Containing" command. It gives you the
opportunity to search your document "regular", to delete the found lines and/or
to copy them to a new document. This may be the way to finish your task elegant
and quickly.
Regards,
Roland
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