Hi Sam,
That worked as expected – I confused the characters here, and also missed I
should use the line character at start. So then tried to figure out how to
remover the last x number of characters of a line (the two operations I
think might be among the two most usable in BBEdit ... and that there
should be built in commands for this, but ...) – but still couldn't figure
that out consulting the manual .... somehow the $ character needs to be
involved and similarly one should make use of dots or .{} but that doesn't
really get anywhere ... any idea there too?
All the best,
Jerry
On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 2:40:02 PM UTC+1, Sam Hathaway wrote:
>
> Jerry,
>
> You’re probably thinking of shell globbing syntax where ? means “one of
> any character”. In a regular expression, . means “one of any character”.
>
> This matches three characters at the beginning of a line:
>
> ^...
>
> This means the same thing, but is a little more readable:
>
> ^.{3}
>
> Hope this helps.
> -sam
>
> On 20 Mar 2019, at 7:56, Jerry Nilson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Cannot figure out the easiest way to remove a certain number of characters
> at the beginning (or the end for that matter) of each line. Prefix/Suffix
> lines seems only working when it is the same characters, so guess I should
> use GREP, but cannot figure out the correct GREP syntax – just adding as
> many ? as characters I want to remove is apparently not valid ... . Any
> idea? (I know the syntax for removing characters within a certain pattern,
> but there are different characters after the last character I want to
> remove.)
>
> All the best,
> Jerry
>
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