I always have trouble making these things work. I enclose groups of text with [[[[group of text]]]] with up to thousands of instances. The very first one may...
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Alec Burgess
alecb3ca
Oct 7, 2011 4:35 am
Hi John: This appears to work from Replace dialog - or in a clip Find=\A[^\[]*\K\]{3}.*?\R Replace=<empty> Note - the \K throws away everything before it (ie....
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Sheri
silvermoonwo...
Oct 7, 2011 6:01 am
In case there might be any valid opening brackets in the text prior to the ]]] line that needs deleting: ^!Replace...
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John Shotsky
shotsky1
Oct 7, 2011 11:00 am
As a matter of fact, both opening and closing may appear between \A and the wanted removal. Just not multiples. I think this does it, thank you! I have never...
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John Shotsky
shotsky1
Oct 15, 2011 2:31 pm
It turns out that this does not do as needed. For reference, there may be, at most, one instance where ]]] is not preceded anywhere in the file by a [[[. That...
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Sheri
silvermoonwo...
Oct 15, 2011 5:52 pm
I'm using 6.2 and it works on your sample. You might want to add a prompt to tell you when its done. It will never remove more than one, but I suppose it would...
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John Shotsky
shotsky1
Oct 15, 2011 6:25 pm
Ok, thanks. I don't know why, but this one works fine, and the first one didn't. I had already done the bulldozer approach of tagging all the matched ]]]...
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Alec Burgess
alecb3ca
Oct 15, 2011 8:26 pm
... Sheri - what does the (*COMMIT) in the above regexp do? (And if possible a link to where it is in PCRE documentation) -- Regards ... Alec (buralex@gmail &...
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Sheri
silvermoonwo...
Oct 16, 2011 12:45 am
... Hi Alec, (*COMMIT) says the rest of the pattern must match from here without backtracking. Its in the regex.chm help file in the section on Backtracking...
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flo.gehrke
Oct 16, 2011 12:25 pm
... John, I think if it's always the first ']]]' in the string you could just write... ^!Replace "(?s).{1,}?\K\]{3}\R" >> "" WRS The beginning of file is...
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flo.gehrke
Oct 16, 2011 12:33 pm
... Sheri, I would be grateful for some more explanations about that verb '(*COMMIT). I've tested your clip... ...
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John Shotsky
shotsky1
Oct 16, 2011 1:04 pm
I found some fairly extensive explanations and examples of this and other such verbs in the PCRE text manual. Search for commit to find all the bits. ...
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John Shotsky
shotsky1
Oct 16, 2011 2:20 pm
Thanks, Flo, the second example does what is needed. It's also easier for me to understand… :-) Regards, John From: ntb-clips@yahoogroups.com...
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flo.gehrke
Oct 16, 2011 2:39 pm
... John, Thanks for that hint, but I can't find an answer there to my question. It appears noticeable that these explanations are rather poor. Maybe they pay...
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diodeom
Oct 16, 2011 6:26 pm
... I'd guess you're running this pattern in the (Ctrl+R) dialog box instead of in a clip -- where it's meant to ***capture or fail*** only once (on the very...
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Robert Bull
barlennan
Oct 16, 2011 9:12 pm
I have a few clips, and the odd AWK script which works on all the (marked?) text in a file. They seem to be two separate ideas. Is it possible to use scripts...
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Sheri
silvermoonwo...
Oct 16, 2011 9:30 pm
... Hi Dio, Flo, everyone, That seems to say it well Dio. In retrospect, this is likely sufficient: ^!Replace "^(?=\Q]]]\E|\Q[[[\E)(*COMMIT)\Q]]]\E.*\R" >> ""...
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Sheri
silvermoonwo...
Oct 16, 2011 9:55 pm
... There are some old clipbooks floating around for use with AWK scripts. Have a look and see if they meet your needs. Since these clipbooks were developed...
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Larry Hamilton
lm_hamilton
Oct 16, 2011 10:12 pm
Yes. This is a common use. There are some examples of AWK scripts that come with NoteTab. Others have used perl, Java, and others. ~Larry ... [Non-text...
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diodeom
Oct 16, 2011 10:13 pm
... I'd consider ^$GetOutput()$ to pass args/variables and get back the results. (For really large blocks of text to process you could just submit the path of...
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flo.gehrke
Oct 17, 2011 10:48 am
... Thanks, diodeom! It was clear, however, why the expression fails at line #9. But the question was: Why doesn't it match line #10 and #11? Why doesn't the...
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John Shotsky
shotsky1
Oct 17, 2011 12:03 pm
Flo, It turns out that your suggestion fails at times, and takes out ]]] which IS preceded by a [[[ somewhere above it in the text. If [[[ were the first thing...
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Sheri
silvermoonwo...
Oct 17, 2011 1:04 pm
Flo, do you remember the \G? I think (*COMMIT) is like that, except the match position within the subject is established dynamically after matching what's...
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flo.gehrke
Oct 17, 2011 1:56 pm
... John, No surprise -- I took your message literally. In #22150, you spoke of "one instance where ]]] is NOT preceded anywhere in the file by a [[[. That is...
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flo.gehrke
Oct 17, 2011 2:25 pm
... Oh yes, I do remember '\G'! Great discussion in Oct 2008 (see #18566) Probably, this could explain why, at times, they call '(*COMMIT)' an anchor. Thanks...
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Jean-François Colas
jf_colas
Oct 20, 2011 11:27 am
Hi all, Though I'm using NoteTab for years now, I just started diving into the Clip language. Mainly I do some Find/Replace operations with regex. For a...
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Eb
ebbtidalflats
Oct 20, 2011 12:29 pm
Hi J-F, What you are asking is remotely possible, but fairly complicated. It probably would be easier to learn to do this completely from the clip, using...
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Sheri
silvermoonwo...
Oct 20, 2011 2:28 pm
... I've actually done something like that. Haven't used it in quite awhile, but it does still work. The main clip is used when the "Find" or "Find and Replace...
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Sheri
silvermoonwo...
Oct 20, 2011 5:03 pm
Here's a couple more clips to use with the previously posted "Load S-R" clip You will need to fix any long command lines that get wrapped in email when you add...
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Jean-François Colas
jf_colas
Oct 21, 2011 10:11 am
Hi all, First, a great thank for all the valuable infos about the Find dialog box. For today, I have a problem with GetDocListAll, which seems not to take...
