Re: Another Newbie GREP help request...

2018-05-18 Thread 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 diacritical

Re: Another Newbie GREP help request...

2018-05-18 Thread 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

Re: Find and Replace help please

2018-05-18 Thread 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

Re: Find and Replace help please

2018-05-18 Thread 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