Thanks Bucky That helps me a lot. Dave
On Monday, May 9, 2022 at 4:14:01 AM UTC+1 buckyjunior 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]> 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/49c92d66-cca0-41a0-8b5f-8e091541e5a2n%40googlegroups.com.
