Select "Process Lines Containing" from the Text menu. Use an expression like "ID_User" and the "Copy to new document" option. This will create a new document that contains only lines that you want to process.
Then a simple replace all should do the actual work. Find: .*ID_User=(.+?)&.*\r Replace: \1\r Hope this helps, [fletcher] > On Jan 26, 2018, at 6:56 PM, Doug Lerner <d...@lerner.net> wrote: > > Hi. I am using BBEdit 11.6.8 and have a file with thousands of lines, where > most lines contain an expression that looks like this: > > ID_User=.5a82483a&-find > > There's other stuff on the line too. > > What I would like to do is find everything between the ID_User_ and *-find > (e.g. .5a82483a in this example) and be left with a file where each line > contains just that userId. After that I can sort it, remove duplicates, etc. > > Is there a sequence of things I can do, using grep search patterns, and so > on, to create a file from this file containing just the userIds? > > Thanks, > > doug > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a > feature request or would like to report a problem, please email > "supp...@barebones.com" 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 bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com > <mailto:bbedit@googlegroups.com>. > 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 "supp...@barebones.com" 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 bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
