On 06/01/2021, at 18:59, Howard <leadwithlo...@gmail.com <mailto:leadwithlo...@gmail.com>> wrote: > To help me to understand better the Grep part of Neil's solution, can someone > provide me with the search pattern and the replace pattern to just find those > lines with numbers in parentheses and extract them without any line numbers? > I'd like to put that into the Pattern Playground and work with that a bit.
Hey Howard, Assuming all of your data lines are variations of this format: 1001405001 0000(10)0000 001320000001 0(16)5000000 021(10)0000(11) 010101000 Then it's extremely simple to extract the lines. Find: .*\(\d+\).* .* == any character zero or more. \( == literal open parenthesis. \d+ == any digit one or more. \) == literal close parenthesis. .* == any character zero or more. If I knew that any line containing even 1 parenthesis was viable for extraction I could be lazy and do: Find: .*\(.* .* == any character zero or more. \( == literal open parenthesis. .* == any character zero or more. OR You could use Neil's suggestion of Process-Lines-Containing with just 1 literal parenthesis. Now – to remove the unwanted digits: Find: \d*(\(\d+\))\d* \d* == any digit zero or more. ( == start capture group. \( == literal parenthesis. \d+ == any digit 1 or more. \) == literal parenthesis. ) == close capture group. \d* == any digit zero or more. Replace: \1 \1 == capture group 1. As I've mentioned BBEdit is always my starting point for building regular expressions, but there are times when a tool like RegEx101.com <http://regex101.com/> will give you more information and more explanation. See your patter here: https://regex101.com/r/eUm1Fo/1 <https://regex101.com/r/eUm1Fo/1> -- Best Regards, Chris -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com" 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 bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/95FE0CE0-CDBE-4044-A1CB-C4FAD1A7F1A2%40gmail.com.
