I'm not sure whether BBEdit's find/replace can be used in that way. The
commands normally trigger the find/replace to occur within the specified open
text document. This command removes all the white space from the beginnings of
lines in the frontmost document.
tell application "BBEdit"
activate
replace "^\\s+" using "" searching in text 1 of text document 1 options
{search mode:grep, starting at top:true}
end tell
It doesn't look AppleScript has native regular expressions, but you can add
them using this plug-in.
http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/downloads/downloads_companion_osaxen.html
Hope this helps,
[fletcher]
> On Apr 15, 2017, at 5:44 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary
> <jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It looks like I'm trying to reinvent the wheel, but I can find a way to do
> this:
>
> 1) replace ^\s with nothing
> 2) replace \s$ with nothing
>
> in a single string
>
> The following lines don't work, because of the "^":
>
> set pathstring to " /path/to/my file.stuff "
>
> tell application "BBEdit"
> replace "^\\s" using "" searchingString pathstring options {search
> mode:grep}
> end tell
>
> But when I remove the "^", the space within the path is also removed, which I
> don't want.
>
>
> Also, I find it's too bad the remove prefix/suffix/prefix and suffix don't
> have a grep option.
>
> Jean-Christophe
>
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