Re: Another Newbie GREP help request...

[Patrick Woolsey]

Please try this:

from [A-Z][a-zA-Z]+

with both the "Case sensitive" and "Grep" options enabled.

In summary, "from " will match these literal characters, while 
the first _character class_ [A-Z] will match a single capital 
letter, and the second _character class_ [a-zA-Z] modified by + 
will match 'at least one or more' capital and/or lowercase letters.


(NB: You may wish to fine-tune this pattern depending on what 
you want a "word" to consist of. :-)


As to grep references, I suggest you start with Chapter 8 
"Searching with Grep" of the included PDF manual (available at 
any time via Help -> User Manual) and work from there.



Regards,

 Patrick Woolsey
==
Bare Bones Software, Inc. 




On 5/14/18 at 11:15 PM, mlon...@gmail.com (Matthew London) wrote:


Hi,
Struggling to get my head around GREP...

I need to use Process Lines Containing function in BBEdit to 
find all lines that  contain the word "from" followed by a 
space, followed by any word that begins with a capital letter


ie:   He is from California
but not
He is from his mother


PS.Grateful if someone can recommend a "GREP for 
non-programmers" written in plain(er) English so I dont have to 
bother you very helpful people here.

Thanks :-)



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Re: Another Newbie GREP help request...

['Holger Bartel' via BBEdit Talk]

Hi, 

if I’m not mistaken you could use either

from [A-Z]+

Or 

from [[:upper:]]+

Not on a computer right now, so this is untested, but hopefully is correct and 
helps ;) 

As for books, maybe one of the O’Reilly pocket references, but I’m not sure 
about the plainer english…

Best,
Holger


> On 15 May 2018, at 5:15 AM, Matthew London  wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Struggling to get my head around GREP...
> 
> I need to use Process Lines Containing function in BBEdit to find all lines 
> that  contain the word "from" followed by a space, followed by any word that 
> begins with a capital letter
> 
> ie:   
> He is from California
> but not
> He is from his mother
> 
> 
> PS.Grateful if someone can recommend a "GREP for non-programmers" written in 
> plain(er) English so I dont have to bother you very helpful people here.
> Thanks :-)
> 
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