That is quite an easy way to do it. Thanks. On Monday, June 1, 2020 at 10:46:41 AM UTC-4, TJ Luoma wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 10:32 AM '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? >> > > 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] >> <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 >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/bbca3dfb-ac5e-4c35-b0d5-9c693153bfe8%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >
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