Hi Eric I think Ronald has explained the ? and \d rather well.
The BBEdit Help "Grep Reference" is a very good introduction and I think that studying it will be tremendously useful. RegEx (a slightly broader name than GREP) is a hugely useful thing to learn I believe and BBEdit has the best implementation of any text editor for the Mac. The book mentioned in BBEdit Help: Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Edition by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl. is top class and very good to get if you want to explore RegEx any further. Patrick http://www.patrickjames.co.uk On 29 Sep 2008, at 21:26, Ewelk wrote: > > BTW, I'm using the BBEdit Help to understand the symbols and patterns > you used, but am having a little trouble. > > What does the ? represent? Is that a wildcard? Is there a way to > limit the wildcard to numbers only? I see something about a /d for > digits. Also, the parenthical after the number doesn't seem to be > stripped out and I can't make that take either for some reason. > > Any help would be great, but I'll keep slugging along as well. Thanks > again! > Eric --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" rather than posting to the group. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
