Would something like this be what you're looking for? .+?/2019/[019]+/([0-9]+)[_.]([0-9]+)-([a-zA-Z]+).*
This will give you the same result with your replacement string. \3 \1, NEN PDF, \1/\2/01, & The ".+?" tells the expression to find everything till the rest of the expression that remains matches. If anything is off in the rest of the expression it won't find a result in the string being searched. Is that what you're looking for? On Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 2:05:05 PM UTC-4, Dave R wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I have a regex that takes a url apart and makes me a csv of the > components: > > Regex: > http://ftp\.newedinburgh\.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/[019]+/([0-9]+)[_.]([0-9]+)-([a-zA-Z]+).* > > > > and the replacement: > \3 \1, NEN PDF, \1/\2/01, & > > which gives, for example: > April 1976, NEN PDF, 1976/04/01, > http://ftp.newedinburgh.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/1976_04-April-New-Edinburgh-News_web.pdf > > > I am wondering if there is a way to leave the http…2019 out of the regex > and, instead of the & (which matches entire regex selection) in the > replacement, use something else to represent the entire source line. > > As you can see i’ve found a solution.. but I am always curious to see if > there is a simpler way. > > Cheers, > > Dave -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/3aea19a9-d72e-4afb-ad16-8cf4e336e9b7%40googlegroups.com.
