Kevin, small typo:
\d{2,] should be \d{2,}
;-)
On Fri, 21 Apr 2023 at 19:58, Kevin Shay <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you only want to apply this to figures of a certain length (i.e. 3 or
> more digits) so it would skip things like "3d" or 'B2B" or "23AndMe", you
> can use curly brackets to specify a number of occurrences, like:
>
> \d{2,] <--matches 2 or more digits
> \d{3,5} <--matches 3 to 5 digits
>
> Kevin
>
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 2:09 PM Neil Faiman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> So you want to find all occurrences of a digit immediately followed by a
>> letter and insert a space between them?
>>
>> Get the search dialog. Check the Grep box. Clear the Case sensitive box.
>>
>> Find: (\d)([a-z])
>> Replace: \1 \2
>>
>> Click the Replace All button.
>>
>> Detailed explanation:
>>
>> - *\d* matches any digit.
>> - *[a-z]* matches any letter.
>> - *\d[a-z]* would match a digit immediately followed by a letter.
>> Parenthesizing the two parts of the search string, *(\d)([a-z])* does
>> the same search, but when it finds a match, it “captures” the substrings
>> that match the parenthesized components — I,e, the digit and the letter.
>> - In the replacement string, *\1* and *\2* stand for the captured
>> substrings that match the parenthesized sub patterns, i.e., the digit and
>> the letter.
>> - So the replacement string *\1 \2* stands for the matched digit, a
>> space, and the matched letter.
>>
>>
>> So if your input text is *123XyZ*, *(\d)* matches the *3 *and assigns it
>> to *\1*, *([a-z])* matches the *X* and assigns it to *\2*, and the the
>> string *3X* is replaced by *3 X*.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Neil Faiman
>>
>> On Apr 21, 2023, at 1:47 PM, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Forgive the level 0 question, but I want to find instances in a simple
>> text document where various figures have got up against some text, with no
>> space between them. (For example 123Xyz).
>> I want to keep the figures the same, and the following text the same, but
>> put a word space between them. (For example 123 Xyz).
>>
>>
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