Glad it worked Dennis. As long as the punishment resulting from my good deed is carried out by you, I am ok with it. ;-)
Seriously, feel free to come back on list or even directly for any more help. You might find *regex101* useful. Great interactive sandbox. (I know BBEdit has great sandbox too but I have not used it). You can save pages and go back. e.g. see this <https://regex101.com/r/pUgvcQ/1> page with your example Regards Kaveh On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 15:45, D O <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/CAG7NB9OYXdxGu8kgPw0SebLC%3DbgNM9GrFAsFXUuNosffYn3pyg%40mail.gmail.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 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/CAJ2R9pgeph2bZhzdiwY%3DN57V6m9o8jPr5Qh%3D1irn7SHbbzgdvg%40mail.gmail.com.
