Copying a search pattern to a new document

[Mohannad Mahmoud]

Hello to all,

I am trying to copy a search pattern to a new document. I am not sure this can be done in Canonize or Processing Lines Containing 

The file I am doing a search in has the following;

3/004

03:00:19:18 0041+10

03:00:23:10 0047+02

03:16 5+08

Mrs Nora? Forgive me.

(Intenral)

Thomas: Well...

ENTERS DOOR

DIANA (OS): Forgive

5 03:00:21:14 0044+06

CUT TO MS - PM DIANA L

DIANA: my interruption. Sir Eric Gairy, the Prime Minister of Grenada.

I need to only copy the first 5 lines;

3/004

03:00:19:18 0041+10

03:00:23:10 0047+02

03:16 5+08

Mrs Nora? Forgive me.

The search patter I am using is;

(3/[0-9]*\r[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}\s[0-9]{4}\+[0-9]{2}\r[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}\s[0-9]{4}\+[0-9]{2}\r[0-9]{2}:[0-9][0-9]\s[0-9]\+[0-9]{2}\r^.*$)

Which is working fine in the classic search and replace function but not in canonize and process line containing

I do not have a coding background, I would appreciate your help guys 

Many thanks

[Greg Raven]

Does this work for you?

\A.*?\n.*?\n.*?\n.*?\n.*?\n

[Mohannad Mahmoud]

Will check it, hope it works

Thanks a lot

[Kaveh Bazargan]

Mohannad

A very useful site for testing regex is regex101. And you can save and copy a test page and it will be there for ever! I put Greg's suggestion here:

https://regex101.com/r/0zaNkG/12

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[Rich Siegel]

On 2/27/20 at 11:14 AM, ka...@rivervalleytechnologies.com (Kaveh

Bazargan) wrote:

>A very useful site for testing regex is regex101. And you can save and copy
>a test page and it will be there for ever! I put Greg's suggestion here:

Or you could use a Pattern Playground. :-)

R.
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[Rich Siegel]

>On Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 5:33:45 AM UTC-8, Mohannad Mahmoud wrote:

>>I am trying to copy a search pattern to a new document. I am
>>not sure this can be done in Canonize or Processing Lines Containing

>Does this work for you?
>
>\A.*?\n.*?\n.*?\n.*?\n.*?\n

Note that "Process Lines Containing" works on *lines*, and so
any pattern that requires crossing line boundaries will never match.

However, assuming that you have a matching pattern (which you
can easily test using a Pattern Playground or the Find window
itself), the "Extract" button in the Find window may do what you
need; leave the "Replace" field blank and click that button, and
all of the matches for the pattern will be copied to a new window.

[Kaveh Bazargan]

Yes, should have mentioned Pattern Playground. I have not used that enough yet. Too many good features in BBEdit 13!