Re: Wildcard on search/replace

Yep :] Though you’re not doing anything with the text inside the tags, so it’s redundant to capture it (with the brackets): .*? > On 2018-01-31, at 09:12, Jaime Guitart Vilches > wrote: > > What I really would like to do is to erase anything between those tags >

Re: Wildcard on search/replace

On 1/30/18 at 3:12 PM, jaime.guit...@gmail.com (Jaime Guitart Vilches) wrote: What I really would like to do is to erase anything between those tags (including the tags themselves), so I understand I would have to use this: Find: (.*?) Replace: [and here leave blank] That should do the

Re: Wildcard on search/replace

Well this may be very helpful, thank you very much. What I really would like to do is to erase anything between those tags (including the tags themselves), so I understand I would have to use this: Find: (.*?) Replace: [and here leave blank] I am very thankful, if this works you've just saved

Re: Wildcard on search/replace

I would add to look at the "Grep Reference" in BBEdit Help for documentation of the syntax. Grep is like wildcards on steroids. [fletcher] > On Jan 30, 2018, at 6:31 AM, Kerri Hicks wrote: > > Well, it depends on what you want to do to those elements. But here's an >

Re: Wildcard on search/replace

Well, it depends on what you want to do to those elements. But here's an example (and note the "grep" box is checked at the bottom). This will take the string this is what the number 5 looks like and will return this is what the number looks like Does that help at all? More info

Wildcard on search/replace

Hello I'm new to this and I hope I can get some help with what I expect/hope to be a basic lack of knowledge on my side... I'm editing a large database and I need to replace a series of strings that are clearly delimited with tags . I'm wondering if there's a wildcard character I can use to