Or, if there's a chance that the text after the last period-and-space will itself contain a space, find ^.*\. ([^.]+)$
and replace it with \1 (It finds 'stuff that does not contain any periods' after a period-and-space.) On Monday, August 28, 2017 at 3:24:57 PM UTC+2, T Burger wrote: > > Find = ^.* (.*)$ > Replace = \1 > > Thanks, > Ted > *********************** Ted Burger **************************** > [email protected] <javascript:> ********* www.tobsupport.com > > > > On Aug 27, 2017, at 12:19 AM, Jasyn Jones <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > I have a text file with 2000 lines of text similar to this: > > baba /baˈba/ nm. mother > bats /bats/ nf. test; v. test > bei /bei/ v. keep > > What I want to do is to find and replace everything up to and including > the last period & space, on every line, so the output would look like: > > mother > test > keep > > I've tried various grep patterns, can't get any to work. Any suggestion > would be appreciated. > > -- > 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] <javascript:>" 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> > . > Visit this group at 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.
