At 21:55 24/12/2014 -0700, Constantine Marberg wrote:
Dear Brian, you are the greatest.
Er, not quite yet, it appears!
I still have a small problem. What I mean, you
can see at the following example:
[...]
I cannot quote your example, as my
under-performing mail client won't do Greek
characters: sorry. But your examples include
non-alphabetic characters after the Greek and before the German.
The semicolon or tab should be before the number
and the parenthesis. Please tell me this last
thing, I really don't know how to.
Two solutions: take your pick.
1. The previous expression included [^a-z] -
which matches any non-alphabetic character. You
need to extend this list to exclude anything else
that might occur in the second part. Taking just
your examples, this might include the digits 0 to
9, a dot, the paragraph mark, and parentheses.
Note that some of these have meanings in regular
expressions and you need to "escape" them in such
an expression if you want them to be interpreted
literally. You do this by preceding them with a
backslash. So you could search for:
([^a-z0-9\.ยง\(\)]*) (.*)
- but note that you may have to add other rogue
characters that might occur in your text.
2. Better might be to approach the problem
directly: searching for the Greek instead of what
is not Greek (as you indeed originally
suggested). I avoided this earlier because (1) I
wasn't sure it would work (it does!) and (2) I
knew I couldn't actually write out the required
expression including Greek characters in a
message. But you should be able to search for:
([a-o ]*) ([^a-o].*)
- but with both those "a"s and "o"s actually
meaning lower-case Greek alphas and omegas (so
replaced with those characters), and replace as before.
... it is very important to me, for you to know,
that I am not one of this lazy guys who let
others do the work for them without googling or
reading the documentation themselves first. I
really try very hard my self first and then ask for help.
Oh, I was just joshing! I didn't think otherwise.
(Or I might not have cared to investigate and reply.)
I hope I can do something in return for you to show you my appreciation.
No need!
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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