Thanks for the deeper explanation. Learned something. The Ways of the Engine can be mysterious.
On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 4:30:37 PM UTC-7 Bruce Van Allen wrote: > Hmm, that carat ^ should have been under the spacebar space. > > Anyway, to further explain: at first the regex engine will indeed match > that spacebar space with the dot ‘.’. But then it comes to the actual > spacebar space in the pattern, but there isn’t one left, so the regex > engine backs up, matches the dot to the last character before the space, > matches the space, and moves on. > > — Bruce > > _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ > > > > > > > On Oct 10, 2023, at 4:25 PM, Bruce Van Allen <b...@cruzio.com> wrote: > > > > That ‘.’ doesn’t match the space character between first and last > because that space character is in the pattern. > > > > ([A-Z])([a-z]+.) ([A-Z][a-z]+.) > > ^ > > > > So that ‘.’ would just be matching the last character of the first name. > > > > HTH > > > > — Bruce > > > > _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ > > > > > > > > > > > > On Oct 10, 2023, at 4:20 PM, Tim A <timaa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > ([AZ])([az]+.) ([AZ][az]+.) > > > > [a-z]+’ so this will match all the lower case letters in the first name > > > > The ‘.’ just adds one more character, and isn’t needed." - but here > would match the presumed space character between First and Last name > > > > ... So why does then successfully match the space character as demanded > by the regular expression? Hasn't it been "used up" by the period? > > > > > > On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 2:41:42 PM UTC-7 Bruce Van Allen wrote: > > The ‘+’ is quantifying a character class '[a-z]’. > > > > ‘[a-z]+’ (without the quotes) means one or more characters in the range > ‘a’ to ‘z’. > > > > The ‘.’ just adds one more character, and isn’t needed. > > > > And Tim is correct that there’s no fourth capture, so the ‘\4' is > meaningless. > > > > — Bruce > > > > _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ > > > > > > > > > > > >> On Oct 10, 2023, at 1:09 PM, Tim A <timaa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Find: ([A-Z])([a-z]+.) ([A-Z][a-z]+.) > >> Replace: \1\3\4 > >> Why the "+."? Isn't the space between first and last name all that is > needed? > >> And what is \4 mean with only three captures? > >> > >> > >> On Monday, October 9, 2023 at 12:10:04 PM UTC-7 Benjamin Irwin wrote: > >> That's cool but I had to move one of the periods inside the ")" as > follows. > >> > >> Find: ([A-Z])([a-z]+.) ([A-Z][a-z]+.) > >> > >> Replace: \1\3\4 > >> > >> On Monday, October 9, 2023 at 10:46:48 AM UTC-4 Kjetil Rå Hauge wrote: > >> Try this: > >> - Click Case sensitive and Grep > >> - Find: "([A-Z])([a-z]+.) ([A-Z][a-z]+)." > >> - Replace: "\1\3\4 " > >> ________________________________________ > >> From: bbe...@googlegroups.com <bbe...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of > Bill Walker <bwa...@cleanair.com> > >> Sent: 09 October 2023 04:32 > >> To: BBEdit Talk > >> Subject: Change First Name SPACE Last Name to First Initial Last Name > >> > >> Example: Change John Doe to JDoe > >> > >> -- > >> > >> -- > >> This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature > request or need technical support, please email "sup...@barebones.com" > rather than posting here. 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