The pattern should work fine, but make sure that you check the "Case Sensitive" checkbox in the Find/Replace dialog box. By default BBEdit ignores case sensitivity so [a-z] will match letters of any case. You can add [0-9] to the second part of your pattern to add a space before the years.
([a-z])[A-Z0-9]) Hope this helps, [fletcher] > On Nov 22, 2016, at 9:26 PM, Rob Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi grep experts, > > I'm trying to convert sequences of lower case character upper case character > pattern to lower case <space> upper case. > > Like photographing children and animals, grep can make one look silly. > > specifically, I have a file full of entries like this: > > "273","BoysSummerSchool2013" > "405","Bridge Clubs" > "30","ChristmasCard2008" > "144","ChristmasCard2009" > > > which I would like to convert to > > "273","Boys Summer School 2013" > "405","Bridge Clubs" > "30","Christmas Card 2008" > "144","Christmas Card 2009" > > (brownie points for lower-digit sequence, I didn't get that far). > > I expected the grep find and replace of > > ([a-z])([A-Z]) > > to > > \1 \2 > > however, this is putting the spaces after the upper case chars. Hmmmm. > > Other variants make me look equally stupid. > > BBEdit 11.6.2 > > Any assistance appreciated. > > Thanks > > Rob > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a > feature request or would like to report a problem, please email > "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit > <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit > <https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit>. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
