On Jan 18, 2011, at 15:02, Ronald J Kimball wrote: > Here's the approach I usually take for this kind of task: > > ^(?>(?:(?!\.app).)*)\.app$ ______________________________________________________________________
Hey Ronald, I bow before the master. :) For Rick: After looking at golem's approach I realized I'd could have provided better information: I want to find the first instance of DEVONthink Pro.app but NOT .apps that it contains as in the 2nd line: /Applications/Applications (Chris)/Data Storage Apps/DEVONthink Pro Office/DEVONthink Pro.app /Applications/Applications (Chris)/Data Storage Apps/DEVONthink Pro Office/DEVONthink Pro.app/Contents/PlugIns/ExactScanPlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/ExactScan Capture.app Fortunately Ronald understood what I was getting at and provided a solution that works nicely. > But I also thought of a simpler approach in this case: > > ^(?!.*\.app.*\.app).*\.app$ Aha! I was trying to do this earlier, but I couldn't quite get the syntax right. Thanks again Ronald. I'm just getting into these assertions, and they're still making my head hurt. :) Is there a good tutorial on how they work somewhere? The BBEdit manual is a little light on examples. (I do have "Mastering Regular Expressions", but it's not always an easy read. :) -- Best Regards, Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
