Hi Kaveh Thanks for your reply - I got it to work. I appreciate the help. As no good deed goes unpunished I am going to dig into Grep to sort out the rest of these files.
Thanks Dennis On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 2:45 PM Kaveh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Please try this: > > </.+?> > > ensure "grep" is switched on. This searches for the shortest match for: > > </ any number of characters > > > . means any char > + means one or more > ? means shortest match, else it might find a >< within the match > > On Tue, 21 Sept 2021 at 21:22, D O <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a bunch of file that were formatted incorrectly >> So I have terms like this >> >> </SerCPU> >> </ShoeType> >> >> I want to find them and eliminate them >> I just don't get the wild cards to work >> >> If I search </*> or - should this not return both of the above ? >> >> I really don't get this - >> >> -- >> 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/152fae56-1dbe-4d68-9d82-564745e93484n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/152fae56-1dbe-4d68-9d82-564745e93484n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > Kaveh Bazargan PhD > Director > River Valley Technologies <http://rivervalley.io> ● Twitter > <https://twitter.com/rivervalley1000> ● LinkedIn > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/bazargankaveh/> ● ORCID > <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1414-9098> > *Accelerating the Communication of Research* > > -- > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/bbedit/cgnopswrob0/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/CAJ2R9pjy%2BhLUTqMRXW-24TyN0he%2BdZe_pMXPTXvQX0m_Z1rhyA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/CAJ2R9pjy%2BhLUTqMRXW-24TyN0he%2BdZe_pMXPTXvQX0m_Z1rhyA%40mail.gmail.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/CAG7NB9OYXdxGu8kgPw0SebLC%3DbgNM9GrFAsFXUuNosffYn3pyg%40mail.gmail.com.
