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 <[email protected]> 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 > "[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.
