On 4/15/17 at 7:23 AM, [email protected] (Bruce Van Allen) wrote:
That pattern matches zero or more spaces/tabs
ADDED: It also removes blank lines. If you were concerned
exclusively with spacebar spaces, change the pattern to
"(^ *| *$)"
Or, remove spaces and tabs using
"(^[ \t]*|[ \t]*$)"
Hi,
This works over here:
tell application "BBEdit"
activate
set pathstring to "/Users/me/Desktop/testfile.txt"
replace "(^\\s*|\\s*$)" using "" searching in text of
pathstring options {search mode:grep, starting at top:true,
wrap around:true}
end tell
That pattern matches zero or more spaces/tabs at both the start
and end of lines.
HTH
On 4/15/17 at 5:44 AM, [email protected]
(Jean-Christophe Helary) wrote:
It looks like I'm trying to reinvent the wheel, but I can find a way to do
this:
1) replace ^\s with nothing
2) replace \s$ with nothing
in a single string
The following lines don't work, because of the "^":
set pathstring to " /path/to/my file.stuff "
tell application "BBEdit"
replace "^\\s" using "" searchingString pathstring options
{search mode:grep}
end tell
But when I remove the "^", the space within the path is also
removed, which I don't want.
Also, I find it's too bad the remove prefix/suffix/prefix and
suffix don't have a grep option.
Jean-Christophe
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