Great explanation Bucky— I shouldn’t have been so lazy as to not give an explanation myself! Thanks for doing what I should have done. It’s perfect.
> On May 8, 2022, at 8:13 PM, Bucky Junior <buckyjunior...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was fortunate to learn some bits of regex/grep from helpful people on this > list who not only showed an answer to a question but explained what was > happening. While this search/replace using grep is quite simple, it’s not > always obvious to everyone. > > >> On May 8, 2022, at 1:36 PM, Dave Simpson <quarl...@gmail.com >> <mailto:quarl...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> You want to do a GREP search, with search string like this: >> >> ^(2 PLAC)(.*)$ >> >> And you want to replace with this: >> >> \1\2 England >> >> That’s it. Try it. >> > > In the search pattern: > ^ means start at the beginning of a line > (2 PLAC) parentheses bracket the search text and “remembers" it. In this > case, it is known characters. Grep lets you search for unknown/partially > known characters too. > (.*) second parentheses uses “.” As any character except newline or carriage > return. The asterisk expands that to zero or more characters. > $ means the end of the line. > > The replacement is > \1 first parentheses “remembered” pattern > \2 follow that with the second > England end the replacement with a space and then the literal text “England” > > That’s mostly this grep/replace. You know the BBEdit Manual has lots more. > Bucky -- 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/A254A9AE-ADD7-4353-A268-18E709817BDF%40christianboyce.com.
