Great explanation Bucky— I shouldn’t have been so lazy as to not give an explanation myself! Thanks for doing what I should have done. It’s perfect.
> On May 8, 2022, at 8:13 PM, Bucky Junior <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] >> <mailto:[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/A254A9AE-ADD7-4353-A268-18E709817BDF%40christianboyce.com.
