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• • April 6, 2022 at 12:51 pm #14363937
    Nathan Rule

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    I am using this grep code However i want it to only do 4 characters or less and leave anything in parentheses more then 4 alone.

    (?<=\().*?(?=\))

    What would be the right way to do that?

  • April 6, 2022 at 1:50 pm #14363940
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Check out the “Wildcards” section here:

    Favorite GREP Expressions You Can Use

    The curly braces indicates how many you want. For example, .{3} means three of any character. \d{3,5} means there should be between 3 and 5 digits.

    • April 6, 2022 at 1:59 pm #14363941
      Nathan Rule

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      I thought i read that link. So in this case i would change it to be

      (?<=\(){1,2,3}(?=\))

      EDIT: That doesnt work, (?<=\().(?=\)) that finds exactly 1 or (?<=\()..(?=\)) finds exactly 2 but .,.. Doesnt find anything

  • April 6, 2022 at 4:01 pm #14363950
    Dhafir Photo

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    Use this: (?<=\().{1,4}(?=\))

    • April 6, 2022 at 4:38 pm #14363952
      Nathan Rule

      Participant

      That doesnt work either. Thanks though!

    • April 6, 2022 at 4:51 pm #14363953
      David Blatner

      Keymaster

      Dhafir’s code works great for me. This finds everything inside parentheses that has between 1 and 4 characters. Are you sure you’re using curly-braces? (?<=\().{1,3}(?=\))

    • April 6, 2022 at 6:46 pm #14363955
      Nathan Rule

      Participant

      im copying and pasting…Yours worked fine. Not sure why it didn’t work with his.

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