Reply to Remove texts/characters/special chars from list on Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:47:26 GMT

Claudio Raphael — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:47:26 GMT

@Terry-R said:

? *| *(.+?) *|,| *[.+?] *|:

Thank you very much Terry-R. Worked perfectly.

I’ve tested 10 lists and everything is as I wanted it to be.

Thank you again.

Claudio

Reply to Remove texts/characters/special chars from list on Thu, 18 Oct 2018 06:08:44 GMT

Terry R — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 06:08:44 GMT

@Claudio-Raphael
It would appear some of the characters you wish to remove may also come with a space behind them (and also in front). So my regular expression (regex) includes this as an option (* means 0 or more).

So in the replace function (default Ctrl and H keys) have the search mode as “regular expression” and wrap around ticked.
Find What:\? *| *\(.+?\) *|,| *\[.+?\] *|:
Replace With:empty field <— nothing here
You can directly copy the red text above and paste into the Find field.

A brief run down of the regex. The | character acts as alternatives. That way 1 regex can search for multiple strings. As most of the characters you want to look for are special (meta-characters meaning they have special meaning) we use the \ to delimit them. That means it reduces them back to the simple character.

Give it a go, come back if you have issues. As can often happen, the example you provide may ot be a FULL representation of the real data.

Terry