Extracting lines that don’t contain tabs

[Francisco Hirsch]

I have files where nearly all the lines have 2 tabs.
A few lines don’t have tabs. Those are the ones I want to extract.
Help will be appreciated

Francisco
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[Kaveh Bazargan]

Make a copy of the file and replace

^.*\t.*\r

with nothihng. That should get rid of any lines with tabs in them.

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[Neil Faiman]

Text > Process Lines Containing ...

[Brian Forte]

On Sat, 3 Jun 2023 08:41:41 -0300, Francisco Hirsch wrote:
> I have files where nearly all the lines have 2 tabs.
> A few lines don’t have tabs. Those are the ones I want to extract.

1. Choose *Text -> Process lines containing…* from the BBEdit menu bar.

2. Change the default radio button so it reads

Find lines that [ ] contain [‧] do not contain:

3. Enter ‘\t\t’ (without the quote marks) in the text-entry field.

4. Check the [√] Grep checkbox.

5. uncheck [ ] Copy to clipboard.

6. check [√] Copy to new document.

7. click *Process* (or press *Return*).

The ‘few lines [that] don’t have tabs’ should appear in a new,
untitled, window.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Brian Forte.
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[Francisco A. Hirsch]

Kaveh Bazargan, Neil Faiman, Brian Forte: Thanks!

[Francisco A. Hirsch]

I tried to make a Text Factory. It does extract the lines I want but the options Copy to Clipboard and, more importantly, Copy to new document, are greyed-out.

Is there a way to automatically save the result?

On Saturday, June 3, 2023 at 8:41:57 AM UTC-3 Francisco Hirsch wrote:

[Johnny Ragadoo]

Edit->Select all should light up the Copy function.