I HOPE this is not something I should easily see. I am using NTL 6.2 This is the FIND command, not a clip. I wanted a regular expression to find lines that did...
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Sheri
silvermoonwo...
Jan 29, 2011 11:12 pm
... Hi Joy, If you are looking for whole lines that begin with one of those characters, the cursor needs to start at the beginning of a line and your pattern...
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mycroftj
Jan 31, 2011 6:03 pm
... Sheri, Thanks so much for the explanation. I've been reading and studying and have never noticed any place that points out what you said about the...
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mycroftj
Mar 28, 2011 11:10 pm
My ultimate goal was to create a script that (left) space or zero pads numbers to a fixed length for sorting. Actual data looks something like File 67817...
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mycroftj
Mar 29, 2011 12:26 pm
During more thinking in the middle of the night... I could do without the code for the commas. This would make it much easier for me to understand and also be...
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John Shotsky
shotsky1
Mar 29, 2011 1:09 pm
After reading through this several times, I could not determine the actual goal. To get good assistance, you should provide the starting data, the result that...
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Don
don@...
Mar 29, 2011 1:13 pm
I'll be honest, I read and did not understand. You just want to sort the middle column in that set of number? Will they always be in columns like this and you...
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Sheri
silvermoonwo...
Mar 29, 2011 3:04 pm
Hi Joy, A caret inside a character class negates the character class. Outside of a character class it indicates BOL (beginning of the the line). Avoid making...
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Don
don@...
Mar 29, 2011 3:27 pm
... Hi Sheri, Can you explain those to us? I am trying to grow here a bit ... If I search and replace this: File 67817 Id.ppt Using: ^(.*?)\t([0-9,]+)\t(.*) ...
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Sheri
silvermoonwo...
Mar 29, 2011 3:58 pm
Hi Don, Let me know if you have a specific question about my patterns, I don't see anything there that should be hard to follow. If a subpattern starts with ?:...
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mycroftj
Mar 30, 2011 7:21 pm
I'm terribly sorry for not being clear. I branched into quite a few directions at once. The goal was to pad all numbers in a document with spaces or zeros so...
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Eb
ebbtidalflats
Mar 30, 2011 9:42 pm
I recall a post by Diodeom in the Clips group, with a bit of razzle-dazzle, that might could do what you want. Perhpas Dio would know what I'm talking about? I...
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Alec Burgess
alecb3ca
Mar 30, 2011 10:31 pm
cc ntb-clips (see note at end) ... Following will enforce 5 digits (zero-padded) before optional decimal and 4 after H=test B3-30 leading / trailing zeros ;...
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Eb
ebbtidalflats
Apr 1, 2011 8:08 pm
Alec, I'm not sure this will work, but the variable ought to break up the output pattern: ^!replace "\b(\d+)\.?(\d*)\b" >> "00000$1.$2^%empty%0000" rwais ...
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Alec Burgess
alecb3ca
Apr 1, 2011 9:45 pm
... It does allow the $2 to be substituted but ^%empty% does not appear to get translated. I get results like this: 45.6 ==> 0000045.6^%empty%0000 -- Regards...
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Eb
ebbtidalflats
Apr 4, 2011 1:19 pm
Ok, try this (hex code '\x30' for the first zero): $2\x30000 Eb...
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Alec Burgess
alecb3ca
Apr 4, 2011 9:07 pm
Thanks Eb - \x30 works. when I was messing around with this I had tried the same thing but realize now that I was trying (the meaningless) uppercase \X30...
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Don
don@...
Jun 18, 2011 1:14 pm
I want to find and capture everything and anything unless until I encounter two spaces in a row ... I was trying this: ([^ {2}]*)...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Jun 18, 2011 3:32 pm
Don wrote:> ... You don't specify how general you need it to be. There may be more than one of those several space markers or none and the marker may be more ...
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Don
don@...
Jun 18, 2011 4:26 pm
Hi Axel, It is part of a longer expression. It is on a single line. (.+?) {2,} Don't know why I was struggling I guess ... other than I was trying to say...
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John Shotsky
shotsky1
Jun 18, 2011 4:43 pm
Negative classes work by individual characters only. You could change any instance of two spaces to a token character, then negate class that, but that's...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Jun 18, 2011 5:26 pm
... Not that I'm aware of, but if I'm wrong I'm sure Sheri or Diodeom will me right. Axel...
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Eb
ebbtidalflats
Jun 20, 2011 6:19 pm
Move the quatifier outside of the class, Inside the class you're just adding the "{2}" characters to the class. ([^ ]{2}) If you want to expand this to mean 2...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Jun 20, 2011 6:34 pm
... Nope. What you suggest equals "two instances of 'not space'". What Don wants is "anything but two spaces in row". Quite different. All your finds will have...
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Don
don@...
Jun 20, 2011 8:38 pm
I am actually exporting this one to another purpose, but testing in both notetab and regex buddy....
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Eb
ebbtidalflats
Jun 21, 2011 9:18 pm
Right you are. I started out commenting on the placement of quatifiers. Then I was on a roll, but forgot about the _not_ two spaces. ... Actually, I would...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
Jun 21, 2011 11:55 pm
... Yes, you're right and that's probably better than my ^!Find "(?s)(.+?)( {2,})" RSTI1 but it has the same problem. Don specified ... which I took to mean...
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Don
don@...
Jun 22, 2011 1:22 am
Yes the two spaces are certain to occur :-) I am limited I supposed in my understanding so I didn't make the assumption you made. Now that you explain it like...
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Don
don@...
Jun 22, 2011 1:26 am
From Regex Buddy (my newest friend ...): "Positive lookahead works just the same. q(?=u) matches a q that is followed by a u, without making the u part of the...
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John Shotsky
shotsky1
Jun 22, 2011 2:12 am
[Off to look up (?= ) and see what it means.] I use it often. It is the inverse of \K - which doesn't capture anything before, but it evaluates it. (?=), when...
