GREP cleanup

[jgill]

I need to clean up some OCR documents to find characters that are NOT [A-Z|a-z|0-9|:]

What is the BBEdit GREP syntax for an invered search (-v) ?

[Bruce Van Allen]

[^A-Za-z0-9:]

The above character class includes the characters you want, and
the '^' at the start negates them. So the above will match ONE
character that is not any of an upper or lower case a to z or a
colon. You could search on that and replace with nothing.

This is standard PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expression)
syntax, not unique to BBEdit.

HTH

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- Bruce

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[jgill]

Thank you Bruce, I used to know this but, at 74, sometimes I need a reminder.