I was fortunate to learn some bits of regex/grep from helpful people on this list who not only showed an answer to a question but explained what was happening. While this search/replace using grep is quite simple, it’s not always obvious to everyone.
> On May 8, 2022, at 1:36 PM, Dave Simpson <[email protected]> wrote: > > You want to do a GREP search, with search string like this: > > ^(2 PLAC)(.*)$ > > And you want to replace with this: > > \1\2 England > > That’s it. Try it. > In the search pattern: ^ means start at the beginning of a line (2 PLAC) parentheses bracket the search text and “remembers" it. In this case, it is known characters. Grep lets you search for unknown/partially known characters too. (.*) second parentheses uses “.” As any character except newline or carriage return. The asterisk expands that to zero or more characters. $ means the end of the line. The replacement is \1 first parentheses “remembered” pattern \2 follow that with the second England end the replacement with a space and then the literal text “England” That’s mostly this grep/replace. You know the BBEdit Manual has lots more. Bucky -- 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/C5EDBB44-1344-45DA-B901-F489E9358C0E%40gmail.com.
