Hi James,
my approach would include two steps:
1. Text Menu > „Add/Remove Line Numbers“ (adding them (of course) – with
one space after the number)
2. Text > „Process Duplicate Lines“ (options: Leaving one; Duplicate to new
doc; Delete duplicate lines; Match using pattern (All sub-patterns):
> ^\d+ (.+)
>
This creates a new document with the duplicate lines and their line
numbers. You might record this easy steps with the Script Editor and save
it for future use. My recording gave me this script:
*tell* *application* "BBEdit"
*select* *text* 1 *of* *text window* 1
*add line numbers* selection *of* *text window* 1 *with* adding space
*process duplicate lines* selection *of* *text window* 1 duplicates options
{match mode:*leaving_one*, match pattern:"^\\d+ (.+)", match subpattern key:
*all_subpatterns*} output options {deleting duplicates:*true*, duplicates
to new document:*true*}
*end* *tell*
Of course you could change the options to your likings (it could be an
option to copy the Duplicates to the clipboard and add an additional step
to remove the line numbers in the original document.
(And just a friendly reminder: it is always a good idea to try such stuff
on a copy, not on the original data – I cannot be responsible for the
integrety of your data and potential mischief …)
On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 10:47 PM James Reynolds <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I use the Process Duplicate Lines feature a lot and I'm discovering I'm
> trying to count them more and more. Does anyone know if there is a way to
> remove duplicate lines and put the number of lines that were removed next
> to them?
>
> James Reynolds
>
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