How to delete "(....)" but only in certain lines

[PeterJones]

@imgema ,

Not if you followed the directions in the post I linked you to. FR doesn’t go by itself in the Find box; there are other pieces that are required for the logic to work.

But that other post explains exactly what you need to do: You have to figure out what the BSR, ESR, and RR need to be for your circumstances – it’s pretty easy to do, since those are just the “begin” and “end” conditions for which sections you want to include (I’ll give you a hint: those values will look a lot like XML tags), and since you want to replace it with nothing, I think RR will be obvious. Once you have figured out what those values need to be, you have to look at the expression that Guy supplied in that post I linked you to, and type those values instead of FR, BSR, ESR, and RR in the Find/Replace boxes.

[Imgema]

@peterjones
I’m sorry, this is over my head. I don’t know what these FR and BSR words mean.

I was looking for a code to use as is.

[Alan Kilborn]

@imgema said in How to delete "(....)" but only in certain lines:

I’m sorry, this is over my head.

It can’t be, this is your data you need to manipulate.

I don’t know what these FR and BSR words mean.

Did you even read the linked posting?
It’s all right there.

I was looking for a code to use as is.

Sure, I wish I had someone to do all my work for me, too.

[Imgema]

Not really my data, i don’t know how to code, i’m trying to modify a xml that was generated by a program.

Thanks anyway, i’ll try to maybe figure it out then.

[PeterJones]

@imgema ,

Remember the old adage, “Give a man a fish, feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime”? I was trying to teach, rather than than give. Sorry.

Here are the steps I was hoping you would be able to figure out.

Step 1: Read the post I linked you to.
Step 2: find the formula I mentioned

• Let FR (Find Regex ) be the regex which defines the char, string or expression to be searched
• Let RR (Replacement Regex ) be the regex which defines the char, string or expression which must replace the FR expression
• Let BSR ( Begin Search-region Regex ) be the regex which defines the beginning of the area where the search for FR, must start
• Let ESR ( End Search-region Regex) be the regex which defines, implicitly, the area where the search for FR, must end

Then, the generic regex can be expressed :
SEARCH (?-i:BSR|(?!\A)\G)(?s:(?!ESR).)*?\K(?-i:FR)
REPLACE RR

Step3: Figure out what FR should be: I gave you this already: \h?\(.*?\)
Step4: Figure out what BSR should be: I gave you hints already: <name>
Step5: Figure out what ESR should be: I gave you hints already: </name>
Step6: Figure out what RR should be: I think this is obviously the empty string
Step7: plug those back in:

• 7a: plug FR into the expression: (?-i:BSR|(?!\A)\G)(?s:(?!ESR).)*?\K(?-i:\h?\(.*?\))
• 7b: plug BSR into the expression: (?-i:<name>|(?!\A)\G)(?s:(?!ESR).)*?\K(?-i:\h?\(.*?\))
• 7c: plug ESR into the expression: (?-i:<name>|(?!\A)\G)(?s:(?!</name>).)*?\K(?-i:\h?\(.*?\))
• 7d: type that final expression from 7c into the FIND box

Step8: type the RR expression (the empty string) into the REPLACE box
Step9: check the Regular Expression box
Step10: click Replace All

It works:

BEFORE:

AFTER:

[Imgema]

@peterjones

Thanks for the guidelines and solution. I appreciate it.

[guy038]

Hi, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn, @terry-r, @astrosofista and All,

As I reported in the second part of this post :

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/74410

and with further explanations in this one :

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/74418

I suppose that we would take avantage to adopt the @hellena-crainicu syntax (?!^) ( instead of (?!\A) ) !

BR

guy038

[Alan Kilborn]

@guy038 said in How to delete "(....)" but only in certain lines:

I suppose that we would take avantage to adopt the @hellena-crainicu syntax (?!^) ( instead of (?!\A) ) !

So how about adding that in the canonical posting linked above; this one to be specific:

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/62799

Please DON’T edit that posting, because a lot of things already like to that, and editing it now would make it confusing. Add a new post in that owner thread, with the updated technique. OR, maybe some brand new thread?

[PeterJones]

@alan-kilborn said in How to delete "(....)" but only in certain lines:

OR, maybe some brand new thread?

I would second the brand-new-thread suggestion. That way, it doesn’t have the confusing context of a specific question with details that don’t match the person’s that we’re pointing to the post. (it goes back to my Developing generic regex sequences from last year, where I wanted to allow us to develop the generics in that thread, then when they were ready, spawn each generic off to a separate “official” topic, and maybe have a post in the FAQ that links to the “official” version)

[guy038]

Hello, @peterjones,

After further testing, I came to the conclusion to keep the present syntax (?\A). Refer to this post for some explanations :

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/74937

So, sorry for the noise. I’m going to reformat most of my notes, concerning this specific regex.

Then I will send it to you by mail for checking before finding a final destination for it !

Cheers,

guy038