grep- Delete everything in each line before a specific character

[Randy Roberts]

I have some files the look like this:

    <thumb fileName="I1092_LS_ChxBS_IT_Bollard.jpg">Bacon Ranch Chicken Sandwich with Iced Tea Suite</thumb>
    <thumb fileName="I1074_ESPRESSOLn_Bollard.jpg">Espresso Line</thumb>
    <thumb fileName="W_I1078_HotIcedLatte_Bollard.jpg">Hot and Iced Lattes</thumb>

There are thousands of lines but here are 3 of them. I need to select and delete everything from the beginning of the line up to the first instance of ">". The desired outcome would be:

>Bacon Ranch Chicken Sandwich with Iced Tea Suite</thumb>
>Espresso Line</thumb>
>Hot and Iced Lattes</thumb>

I have tried several expressions and none have worked.

Thanks for your help

RR

[Rod Buchanan]

On Aug 29, 2014, at 11:59 AM, Randy Roberts <reall...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have some files the look like this:

    <thumb fileName="I1092_LS_ChxBS_IT_Bollard.jpg">Bacon Ranch Chicken Sandwich with Iced Tea Suite</thumb>
    <thumb fileName="I1074_ESPRESSOLn_Bollard.jpg">Espresso Line</thumb>
    <thumb fileName="W_I1078_HotIcedLatte_Bollard.jpg">Hot and Iced Lattes</thumb>

There are thousands of lines but here are 3 of them. I need to select and delete everything from the beginning of the line up to the first instance of ">". The desired outcome would be:

Search:

^.*?>

Replace:

>

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Rod Buchanan

KDSI / Kelly Supply Co / ISCO
308 382-8764 x1120

[Christopher Stone]

On Aug 29, 2014, at 11:59, Randy Roberts <reall...@gmail.com> wrote:

<thumb fileName="I1092_LS_ChxBS_IT_Bollard.jpg">Bacon Ranch Chicken Sandwich with Iced Tea Suite</thumb>

...

There are thousands of lines but here are 3 of them. I need to select and delete everything from the beginning of the line up to the first instance of ">". The desired outcome would be:

>Bacon Ranch Chicken Sandwich with Iced Tea Suite</thumb>

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Hey Randy,

You say some files, so I imagine you might want to automate the process a bit.

Of these the Perl filter is fastest on a really big file (above 50K lines).

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RegEx Find/Replace using Positive Lookahead Assertion

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Find:

^.+?(?=>)

Replace:

Nothing

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AppleScripted RegEx Find/Replace

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tell application "BBEdit"

  tell front text window's text

    replace "^.+?(?=>)" using "" options {search mode:grep, case sensitive:false, starting at top:true}

  end tell

end tell

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Perl Text Filter

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#! /usr/bin/env perl 

use v5.010; use strict; use warnings;

while (<>) {

  if ( m!^.+?(?=>)(.+)! ) {

say $1;

} else {

print;

}

}

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To quickly get to your text filter folder if you haven't used it before paste the following line into a BBEdit worksheet or the Terminal and run.

D=~/'Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Text Filters/'; mkdir "$D" > /dev/null 2>&1; open "$D";

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Best Regards,

Chris