Hi,
An example of the text and a description of what you’re trying to accomplish
would help.
>From your find pattern, I’m guessing you’re trying to find cases where a
>string is followed by the same string, to be replaced by just one instance of
>the string.
'\b(\w+)+\1\b’ (your original - without the quotes)
Your find pattern’s second plus sign ‘+’ isn’t doing anything, because the
first one, which quantifies the ‘\w’, is grabbing every consecutive
word/alphanumeric character including any repetitions.
Removing that second ‘+', the find pattern '\b(\w+)\1\b’ (without the quotes)
will find a string of word characters followed immediately by the same string,
as in ‘My sentence is abcabc for defdef.’ Using your replacement pattern of
‘\1’, this will become ‘My sentence is abc for def.’
Guessing that you’re are actually looking for duplicated WORDS, if the find
pattern has a spacebar space ‘ ‘ then it will find any word followed by a space
and then the same exact word, and the replacement will eliminate the
duplication.
With find pattern '\b(\w+) \1\b’, your replacement pattern makes 'My sentence
is abc abc for def def.’ into 'My sentence is abc for def.’
If you want to find a string of word characters that matches an earlier
instance of the same string but separated by more than just a space, your
pattern may be more complicated.
HTH and please clarify if my guesses are wrong.
— Bruce
_bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_
> On Dec 14, 2024, at 1:43 PM, ce gm <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello there,
>
> I am doing a GREP search on a .txt file in Bbedit on my Mac. Here are the
> find/replace terms:
> Find: \b(\w+)+\1\b
> Replace: \1
>
> When I input the Find term, it correctly identifies the targets in the
> preview (highlights them in yellow). Then, when I push Replace All, I get a
> pop up with Application Error Code: 12247 and nothing else.
>
> Anyone know what this means? A cursory Google search was not helpful.
>
> Thanks!
>
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