this removed the leading parent, but did not remove the ;xxx-yyy numbers at the end of each line or the final trailing paren )
like (T ACT) (M ATG) (D GAT) (H CAC) (L CTG) (E GAG) (K AAA) (N AAC) (E GAA) ;1210-1218 ) On 12/6/2010 11:16 AM, Jacob Munson wrote: > <cfset str = reReplace(str,"^\(","")> > <cfset str = reReplace(str,";\d+-\d+\)","")> > > > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Rick Colman<rcol...@cox.net> wrote: >> Been whacking at this one for a while, and it eludes me. >> >> ((T ACC) (I ATT) (T ACT) (P CCA) (E GAA) (T ACT) (S TCC) (R CGT) (P CCA) >> (I ATC) ;0-9 >> (T ACT) (M ATG) (D GAT) (H CAC) (L CTG) (E GAG) (K AAA) (N AAC) (E GAA) >> ;1210-1218) >> >> remove only single leading paren ( >> remove only trailing single paren ) >> leave all others >> >> remove ;xxx-yyy at the end of each line (unix line) where xxx is a >> number and yyy is a number >> >> so that the result looks like: >> >> (T ACC) (I ATT) (T ACT) (P CCA) (E GAA) (T ACT) (S TCC) (R CGT) (P CCA) >> (I ATC) (T ACT) (M ATG) (D GAT) (H CAC) (L CTG) (E GAG) (K AAA) (N AAC) >> (E GAA) >> >> You will advance the state of genomic science !!! >> >> (yuck ... I hate RE ...) >> >> Rick >> >> >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339835 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm