Select the search pattern in the Find dialog, head up to the Edit menu and
select Copy as Styled Text
\d{3,5}
Voila :]
> On 2023-04-22, at 07:16, Kevin Shay <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Oops, sorry. No syntax highlighting in Gmail :)
>
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 3:03 PM Kaveh Bazargan <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Kevin, small typo:
>>
>> \d{2,] should be \d{2,}
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>> On Fri, 21 Apr 2023 at 19:58, Kevin Shay <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[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]
>>> <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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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