On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 10:32 AM 'anotherhoward' via BBEdit Talk <
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> What if I wanted to extract all the text up to, but not including, the
> left parenthesis?
>

search for

\(.*

and replace it with nothing.

You may want to add a space before it if you want to exclude the space





>
> 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]> 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
>>
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