Hi,
you can also do the whole thing without regex if you like:
1. Move the caret to the position right before the word California 2. Select the whole thing by pressing ⌘⇧↑ 3. Hit ⌥ to get multiple carets 4. Move to the end of the line by pressing ⌘→ 5. Select the current words — the abbreviations — by pressing ^W 6. Hit ← to move the caret before the abbreviations 7. Select the text until the beginning of the line: ⇧⌘← 8. Hit ⌫ to remove the selected text
After that you get
AL AK AZ AR CA
To move the words into a single line press ^Q. Then your text looks something like this:
AL AK AZ AR CA
If you want to get rid of the spaces:
1. Select one space character and move it into the find clipboard by pressing ⌘E 2. Select the whole line: ⇧⌘L 3. Use “Find All” to get all occurrences of the space character: ⌘F 4. Delete the spaces by hitting ⌫
Kind regards, René
On 15 Jul 2015, at 8:21 , jgalt jgaltusa@gmail.com wrote:
For example, how can I strip away the names of the states in this string and only keep he two character abbreviations?
(In my file the state names and abbreviations are separated by a tab.)
Alabama AL Alaska AK Arizona AZ Arkansas AR California CA
Also...how could I turn this string:
AL AK AZ AR CA
into: AL¶AK¶AZ¶AR¶CA
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