Re: Find and Replace help please

[Kerri Hicks]

OK, then try this, instead.

###(.|\n)*?&&&

--Kerri

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 12:17 PM Matthew London  wrote:

> Hi Again,
>
> Turns out there are sometimes multiple lines both within my KEEP text and
> in my DELETE text.
>
> le:
> &&&
> Line or Lines to be KEPT
> ###
> Line or Lines to be DELETED
> &&&
> Line or Lines to be KEPT
> ###
> etc.
>
> Grateful for your help
>
> On Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at 12:51:20 PM UTC-7, Kerri Hicks wrote:
>>
>> Use the Find dialog and turn on the "Grep" switch...
>>
>> 1) I have questions about this one. Are the lines to be kept and the
>> lines to be deleted always alternating? (e.g. there's always one to be
>> kept, always followed by one and only one to be deleted?) If not, I'd
>> probably do this one in two steps (first delete the hash lines and the
>> deletable lines, and then just go through and delete all the ampersands,
>> so, use the same expression as #2, and then do another search and replace
>> for &&&\n). (And I just saw that Sam mentions the same strategy. I started
>> this email an hour ago.)
>>
>> 2) ###\n.*?\n
>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
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Re: Find and Replace help please

[Matthew London]

Hi Again,

Turns out there are sometimes multiple lines both within my KEEP text and 
in my DELETE text.

le:
&&&
Line or Lines to be KEPT
###
Line or Lines to be DELETED
&&&
Line or Lines to be KEPT
###
etc.

Grateful for your help

On Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at 12:51:20 PM UTC-7, Kerri Hicks wrote:
>
> Use the Find dialog and turn on the "Grep" switch...
>
> 1) I have questions about this one. Are the lines to be kept and the lines 
> to be deleted always alternating? (e.g. there's always one to be kept, 
> always followed by one and only one to be deleted?) If not, I'd probably do 
> this one in two steps (first delete the hash lines and the deletable lines, 
> and then just go through and delete all the ampersands, so, use the same 
> expression as #2, and then do another search and replace for &&&\n). (And I 
> just saw that Sam mentions the same strategy. I started this email an hour 
> ago.)
>
> 2) ###\n.*?\n
>
>>
>>


 

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Re: Another Newbie GREP help request...

[Matthew London]

I think I see my problem.
I was using "Process Lines Containing" which appears to extract the entire 
line, not matter what I search for.
I used Search with the Extract function, and it works now! 

Thank you


On Friday, May 18, 2018 at 1:47:33 AM UTC-7, Rick Gordon wrote:
>
> Change the .* in your string to [^.]* 
>
> (And you don't need the square brackets around \. ) 
>
> So: 
> from [A-Z][a-zA-Z][^.]*\. 
>
> …which really means: 
>
>  from followed by a space 
>
>  a single capital letter, not including diacriticals/accents 
>
>  a single letter of any case, not including diacriticals/accents 
>
>  any number (including zero) of non-period characters (which may 
> include other punctuation, spaces, line breaks, etc.) 
>
>  a period 
>
> Does that work, or do you need to be more specific? 
>

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Re: Another Newbie GREP help request...

[Rick Gordon]

Change the .* in your string to [^.]*

(And you don't need the square brackets around \. )

So:
from [A-Z][a-zA-Z][^.]*\.

…which really means:

from followed by a space

a single capital letter, not including diacriticals/accents

a single letter of any case, not including diacriticals/accents

any number (including zero) of non-period characters (which may 
include other punctuation, spaces, line breaks, etc.)


a period

Does that work, or do you need to be more specific?

Rick Gordon


On May 18, 2018 at 1:33:08 AM [-0700],
Matthew London wrote in an email entitled
"Re: Another Newbie GREP help request...":
I managed to figure out that the following would give me everything 
that had "from" followed by a capital letter, with a period followed 
by a space at the end:


from [A-Z][a-zA-Z].*[\. ]

But that also gives me all the sentences in the line which 
preceded the one I need!


How would I strip out all the sentences that precede the one I need?

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