Re: Extract number within parentheses using GREP

[Christopher Stone]

On 06/03/2021, at 09:46, Howard <leadwithlo...@gmail.com> wrote: Chris, what you wrote is very helpful. To get the Grep results not enclosed in parentheses, I used the Replace pattern `\2` with this Search pattern: \d*(\((\d+)\))\d* but that resulted in these numbers: 10 16 10 11 Hey Howard, That can't be right.  If you genuinely got the above result you need to show all your steps. In BBEdit 12 and 13: Source: 0000(10)0000 0(16)5000000 021(10)0000(11) Find: `\d*(\((\d+)\))\d*` Repl: `\2` Result: 10 16 1011 The above would be better written this way: Source: 0000(10)0000 0(16)5000000 021(10)0000(11) Find: `\d*\((\d+)\)\d*` Repl: `\1` Result: 10 16 1011 To get the output you want add a space to `\1 ` You'll get: 10<space> 16<space> 10<space>11<space> Follow that up by removing the trailing horizontal whitespace. Find: `\h+$` Repl: nothing This becomes terribly tedious when you do it all by hand, so I wrote you an example Text Factory. Install here: ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Text Filters/Text Factories/ You have to run it from the Text > Apply Text Filter menu with the target document FRONTMOST. Give it a keyboard shortcut for convenience in BBEdit's Menus & Shortcuts prefs. Text Factories let you do quite a lot without learning how to write scripts. -- Take Care, 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/3480DA58-0FBC-4F72-99EC-9C25C868986E%40gmail.com.

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