search pattern

[Otto Munters]

Hello BB friends

In a subtitle project I want to remove segments containing only a time stamp, without subtitle.

Example:

3

00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,000
We'll finish the next.

4
00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,000

5
00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:02,000
We saw yesterday that this 

knowledge is growing clarity

should become:

3
00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,000
We'll finish the next.

5
00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:02,000
We saw yesterday that this 

knowledge is growing clarity

So the number above and the timestamp without text underneath should be removed, leaving only one empty line in between the two remaining segments.

Anybody can help me? Much appreciated!

Otto

[Alberto Gutiérrez]

Hi, Otto. I think this would work:

(?<=\r)\d+\r\d(.+?)(?=\r\r)

Looks for a return, then a digit one or more times, a return,  a digit (the first of the line with the time stamp), and anything up to two returns.

[jj]

Hi Otto,

Here is a commented regular expression that should match what you want to remove.
Copy and paste it as is in the Find window using the menu 'Edit > Paste > and Select', otherwise it will be escaped.

(?xx)                                               # Allow comments and ignore whitespace.
(?(DEFINE)                                          # Define reusable patterns.
    (?<TIMESTAMP>                                   # TIMESTAMP named pattern.
        \d{2,}:[0-5][0-9]:[0-5][0-9],\d{3}
    )
)
^                                                   # Start of line.
\d+                                                 # One or more digits.
\h*                                                 # Zero or more horizontal whitespace.
\v                                                  # A vertical whitespace.
(?&TIMESTAMP)\h*-->\h*(?&TIMESTAMP)                 # Two TIMESTAMP patterns separated by an arrow.
(
    \v\h*\v                                         # Followed by a blank line
|                                                   # or
    \Z                                              # the End Of File.
)

Leave the Replace field empty.

For definitive PCRE2 pattern documentation, see https://www.pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2pattern.html.

HTH

Jean Jourdain

[Otto Munters]

Thank you all for helping me. I found the grep I was looking for!

Otto

Op vrijdag 27 december 2024 om 20:54:44 UTC+5:30 schreef jj:

[Otto Munters]

Hello Ulrich

Thanks to your help I found the grep I was looking for! Thanks a lot.

Wish you all the best,

Best regards, Otto

Op 27 dec 2024, om 15:46 heeft 'Ulrich Kapp' via BBEdit Talk <bbe...@googlegroups.com> het volgende geschreven:

Hi Otto,

try this search pattern

^\d{1,}\r\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2},\d{3} --> \d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2},\d{3}\r\r

and just delete (replace with empty string).

This will do for your example and hopefully for every entry without any text.

Happy new year and best wishes!

Ulrich

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[john Mitchell]

Hi all

bbedit version 15.1.3 (15B62, Apple Silicon)

macOS 15.2 (24C101)

I get this completion example (inPython):

change_individual_name(<# level_families #>, <# family_id #>, <# child_id #>, <# new_name #>)

is there a (smart) way to accept the variable names instead of deleting the delimiters. 

In this example the first 3 arguments are identical, but the last argument will have a custom edit, and of course there will be great variation in arguments

John Mitchell

[Roland Küffner]

Hi,

you could replace the default "Go to Next Placeholder" functionality (= pressing TAB) by a custom script that removes the Placeholder syntax "<#...#>" and jumps to the next Placeholder.

I tried to record a quick and dirty Applescript that worked on my (very basic) tests:

tell application "BBEdit"
activate
replace "<#(.+?)#>" using "\\1" searching in selection of text window 1 options {search mode:grep}
end tell
tell application "System Events" to keystroke " "

Please mind that the keystroke command in the last line has a literal tab in it's string – you could also use keystroke (ASCII character 9)

The placeholder must already be selected (probably by having pressed TAB).

All you would have to to is to save such a script, give it a keyboard shortcut, jump to the first placeholder (TAB) and use your shortcut from there,

Not ideal, but maybe better than removing them brackets with bare hands.

Regards

Roland

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[john Mitchell]

tks Roland - will experiment!

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regards

John


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