Hi Mark, @16-Mar-2003, 08:38 Mark said:
> I'm a newbie and this may be a FAQ, but I can't find the > answer. It's actually not an FAQ, so let's see if there is any help for you! > I want a regex macro to remove a frequently appearing chunk of > constant text ... <snip> > eg. > *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* > Dr Jo Price > Lecturer in Bloggins > Dept of xxxxx > University of xxx > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > What to do if say the *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* and -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > is always present and the bit in between is variable?? Starting from the Quote Extraction macro from the FAQ library... http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/Library.html#quote+extraction %QUOTES='%SETPATTREGEXP="(?is)%- ((\s*)?\n?-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED.*?\n(Hash:.*?\n)?\s*)?%- (\s*(Dear|Hi|Hello|Hey|Greetings|Howdy) \S*?\s*\n+)?%- (-+[\S ]+\n)?%- (.*?)(^(%- - -*?\s*?--\s*\n|%- _{40,}\s*\n|%- -{40,}\s*\n|%- \n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE.*s?\n|%- --+\s+.*roups.*~--\>)|%- \n\nYour use of|%- \n+Get your FREE download|%- \nNote that the email address of the sender has been changed|%- \n---\nOutgoing mail is certified Virus Free.|%- \z)"%REGEXPBLINDMATCH="%text"%SUBPATT="7"' The two insertion point for new delimiter strings are around this line. (.*?)(^(%- Like so: (\*=\*=\*=\*=\*=\*=\*=\*=\*=\*\n)?%- (.*?)(^(%- >*\s*-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-\n| and change the final extraction to "SUBPATT="8"' > As the next step, what to do if this chunk of text has variable > numbers of >'s associated? Done! In this case, the preamble cut only focuses on what immediately precedes the required text while the end marker specifies >*\s? to say any number of (or zero) '>'s followed by (zero or more) spaces. -- Cheers -- .\\arck D Pearlstone -- List moderator TB! v1.63 Beta/7 on Windows 2000 5.0.2195 Service Pack 2 ' (Message not PGP signed because of QT macros containing lines starting with '-'). ________________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBTECH" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
