What if I wanted to extract all the text up to, but not including, the left parenthesis?
On Monday, June 1, 2020 at 9:49:58 AM UTC-4, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > > > > > On Jun 1, 2020, at 21:31, Howard <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > Here is an input sample: > > > > Arizona (5) > > Minnesota (4) > > Cleveland (2) > > San Diego (4) > > > > Using Grep, I want to remove all the text in each item from the left > parenthesis on. How can I do that? > > including the left parenthesis: > search for \(.+$ > replace with nothing > > excluding the left parenthesis: > search for (?<=\().+$ > replace with nothing > > The "exclusion" uses a "lookbehind" match as in "look behind this to see > if the rest matches, but only act on the rest". So here, it says "look > behind a left parenthesis see if you find anything" > > > -- > Jean-Christophe Helary @brandelune > http://mac4translators.blogspot.com > > -- 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 here. 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/bbca3dfb-ac5e-4c35-b0d5-9c693153bfe8%40googlegroups.com.
