Thanks all for the quick and informative responses . The "Text -> Zap
Gremlin" of Rod did the trick!
On Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 12:53:06 PM UTC-7 jj wrote:
> Tim,
>
> BBEdit is PCRE2 16-bit based so maybe a unicode regular expression can
> help you. But Unicode is tricky and defining what applies as an emoji
> depends on many factors and possible combinations.
>
> This regular expression seems to catch many emoticons, emojis, etc. but I
> don't know if it is exhaustive.
> At least it seems to work in BBEdit and can be modulated to select
> specific Unicode blocks.
>
> ```
> (*UTF)(?x)
> [\N{U+2700}-\N{U+27BF}] (?# Dingbats 192)
> |[\N{U+1F000}-\N{U+1F02F}] (?# Mahjong Tiles 44)
> |[\N{U+1F030}-\N{U+1F09F}] (?# Domino Tiles 100)
> |[\N{U+1F0A0}-\N{U+1F0FF}] (?# Playing Cards 82)
> |[\N{U+1F100}-\N{U+1F1FF}] (?# Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement 193)
> |[\N{U+1F200}-\N{U+1F2FF}] (?# Enclosed Ideographic Supplement 64)
> |[\N{U+1F300}-\N{U+1F5FF}] (?# Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 768)
> |[\N{U+1F600}-\N{U+1F64F}] (?# Emoticons 80)
> |[\N{U+1F650}-\N{U+1F67F}] (?# Ornamental Dingbats 48)
> |[\N{U+1F680}-\N{U+1F6FF}] (?# Transport and Map Symbols 110)
> |[\N{U+1F700}-\N{U+1F77F}] (?# Alchemical Symbols 116)
> |[\N{U+1F780}-\N{U+1F7FF}] (?# Geometric Shapes Extended 101)
> |[\N{U+1F800}-\N{U+1F8FF}] (?# Supplemental Arrows-C 148)
> |[\N{U+1F900}-\N{U+1F9FF}] (?# Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs 244)
> |[\N{U+1FA00}-\N{U+1FA6F}] (?# Chess Symbols 98)
> |[\N{U+1FA70}-\N{U+1FAFF}] (?# Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A 16)
> ```
> Best regards,
>
> Jean Jourdain
> On Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 5:03:21 PM UTC+2 Tim A wrote:
>
>> How do I strip emoji characters from a body of text?
>>
>> 😳 🤣🤣
>>
>> ♥️
>>
>> 🥰
>>
>>
>>
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