Re: Removing part of a string

[Howard]

Thanks jem, your first solution is what I needed.



On Friday, 13 November 2020 at 1:53:33 pm UTC-5 Tim A wrote:

> Ah! Hiding in plain sight :>)
> Thanks.
>
> On Friday, November 13, 2020 at 9:37:51 AM UTC-8 Jan Erik Moström wrote:
>
>> On 13 Nov 2020, at 17:07, Tim A wrote: 
>>
>> > Curio. Both suggested Search patterns will also "see" themselves and 
>> > match in the three lines of text below. Why? 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 1956,ML,Don Newcombe\newcodo01,BRO,4.5,27,7,0,3.06,268.0,139 
>> > 
>> > \\.*?, 
>> > 
>> > \\[^,]+ 
>>
>> These patterns says 
>>
>> 1. Match any characters from a backslash until (and including) the first 
>> comma. All three lines match this 
>> 2. Match any characters that are not a common from a backslash. All 
>> lines match this also. 
>>
>> = jem 
>>
>

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Re: Removing part of a string

[Tim A]

Ah! Hiding in plain sight :>)
Thanks.

On Friday, November 13, 2020 at 9:37:51 AM UTC-8 Jan Erik Moström wrote:

> On 13 Nov 2020, at 17:07, Tim A wrote:
>
> > Curio. Both suggested Search patterns will also "see" themselves and 
> > match in the three lines of text below. Why?
> >
> >
> >
> > 1956,ML,Don Newcombe\newcodo01,BRO,4.5,27,7,0,3.06,268.0,139
> >
> > \\.*?,
> >
> > \\[^,]+
>
> These patterns says
>
> 1. Match any characters from a backslash until (and including) the first 
> comma. All three lines match this
> 2. Match any characters that are not a common from a backslash. All 
> lines match this also.
>
> = jem
>

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Re: Removing part of a string

[Jan Erik Moström]

On 13 Nov 2020, at 17:07, Tim A wrote:

Curio. Both suggested Search patterns will also "see" themselves and 
match in the three lines of text below. Why?




1956,ML,Don Newcombe\newcodo01,BRO,4.5,27,7,0,3.06,268.0,139

\\.*?,

\\[^,]+


These patterns says

1. Match any characters from a backslash until (and including) the first 
comma. All three lines match this
2. Match any characters that are not a common from a backslash. All 
lines match this also.


= jem

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Re: Removing part of a string

[Tim A]

Curio. Both suggested Search patterns will also "see" themselves and match 
in the three lines of text below. Why?

1956,ML,Don Newcombe\newcodo01,BRO,4.5,27,7,0,3.06,268.0,139
\\.*?,
\\[^,]+


On Friday, November 13, 2020 at 6:33:34 AM UTC-8 Robin Beech wrote:

> grep search for 
>
> \\[^,]+
>
> and replace with nothing
>
>
> On Friday, November 13, 2020 at 8:27:05 AM UTC-5 Howard wrote:
>
>> I have a dataset with a number of lines of data like this one:
>>
>> *1956,ML,Don Newcombe\newcodo01,BRO,4.5,27,7,0,3.06,268.0,139*
>>
>> In each line, in its third entry (in the above it is *Don 
>> Newcombe\newcodo01*) I want to remove everything from the backslash up 
>> to but not including its ending comma, so for the above line the output 
>> would be this: 
>>
>> *1956,ML,Don Newcombe,BRO,4.5,27,7,0,3.06,268.0,139*
>>
>> How can I do that?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Howard
>>
>>

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Re: Removing part of a string

[Robin Beech]

grep search for 

\\[^,]+

and replace with nothing


On Friday, November 13, 2020 at 8:27:05 AM UTC-5 Howard wrote:

> I have a dataset with a number of lines of data like this one:
>
> *1956,ML,Don Newcombe\newcodo01,BRO,4.5,27,7,0,3.06,268.0,139*
>
> In each line, in its third entry (in the above it is *Don 
> Newcombe\newcodo01*) I want to remove everything from the backslash up to 
> but not including its ending comma, so for the above line the output would 
> be this: 
>
> *1956,ML,Don Newcombe,BRO,4.5,27,7,0,3.06,268.0,139*
>
> How can I do that?
>
> Thanks,
> Howard
>
>

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Re: Removing part of a string

[Jan Erik Moström]

On 13 Nov 2020, at 14:27, Howard wrote:

> **1956,ML,Don Newcombe\newcodo01,BRO,4.5,27,7,0,3.06,268.0,139**

If there are no other places the backslash can appear the simplest would be

Search: \\.*?,
Replace: ,

or if it's always "\newcodo01"

Search: "\newcodo01" (grep search off)
Replace:

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Removing part of a string

[Howard]

I have a dataset with a number of lines of data like this one:

*1956,ML,Don Newcombe\newcodo01,BRO,4.5,27,7,0,3.06,268.0,139*

In each line, in its third entry (in the above it is *Don 
Newcombe\newcodo01*) I want to remove everything from the backslash up to 
but not including its ending comma, so for the above line the output would 
be this: 

*1956,ML,Don Newcombe,BRO,4.5,27,7,0,3.06,268.0,139*

How can I do that?

Thanks,
Howard

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