On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 10:32 AM 'anotherhoward' via BBEdit Talk < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >> >> -- > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/bbca3dfb-ac5e-4c35-b0d5-9c693153bfe8%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CADjGqHs5FPMgL%2BTtWm3pgck1_OXG5T60XpQkNqtjBeH3mU1D_A%40mail.gmail.com.
