Thank you very much. On Monday, June 1, 2020 at 10:45:44 AM UTC-4, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > > > > > On Jun 1, 2020, at 23:32, 'anotherhoward' via BBEdit Talk < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > What if I wanted to extract all the text up to, but not including, the > left parenthesis? > > Then you need to check that the left parenthesis is ahead of the stuff you > need to match. So it's a "lookahead is there's a left parens!": > > ^.+(?=\() > > And if you want to *extract* the stuff that matches, you have a cute > "Extract" button in the Search dialog to do that. > > The manual is of tremendous help too. > > -- > Jean-Christophe Helary @brandelune > http://mac4translators.blogspot.com > > > > > > 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] > <javascript:>" 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] <javascript:>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/bbca3dfb-ac5e-4c35-b0d5-9c693153bfe8%40googlegroups.com. > > > >
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