The Pattern Playground on the Search menu is a great way to build up a pattern for search/replace. You can see interactively what it is going to match as you create it. I think this pattern works.
Search: ^[0-9:, -->]+\r Replace: The caret sign anchors the search at the start of the line. The square brackets match any character contained within so we simply enumerate all the characters in the lines you want to get rid of and replace with an empty string. Any lines that contain a character other than a number or the other characters will be removed. You can then use Remove Blank Lines on the Text menu to clean up any remaining blank lines. [fletcher] > On May 30, 2023, at 5:23 AM, Otto Munters <ottomunt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, I am a new BBEdit user and want to remove all timings from a srt file > to use it as a text document. It looks like this now: > 1 > 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:45,060 > Welcome. Lovely to see you all. We > should take our time to introduce > > 2 > 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:52,380 > the rules. Just like you have ashram > rules, we have rules for self inquiry. > > 3 > 00:00:55,200 --> 00:01:01,080 > Vedanta is an ancient tradition, > science of self inquiry > > All the first two lines of each paragraph (page number and timing) I want to > remove. I also want to remove the blank lines so that one large block of text > remains. > > Can anyone help me with the code I can use as a Grep? > Thanks in advance! > > -- > 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 > <mailto:bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/8b13b1cd-1b61-475b-90cf-7530b3aeb928n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/8b13b1cd-1b61-475b-90cf-7530b3aeb928n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/11638334-005B-4216-A915-073361D07657%40cumuli.com.