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Grep remove full stops (periods) from text

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    • June 1, 2014 at 4:09 pm #68750
      Andrew Warner
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      Hello

      I have a list of car related stuff, which has been done in excel. Only problem is for some reason loads of full stops have been put in the listings for example: “BMW Series. 3 >09 1.7-2.6″… etc my problem is the full stop after Series which I need to remove from throughout the list for all the various places it pops up, but not the 1.6 or 2.6 etc places. Can use find and replace but it’s v long winded. I’m not very up to speed with grep so could some kind soul give me example of how to do this. Thanks.

    • June 1, 2014 at 5:13 pm #68751
      David Blatner
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      GREP is great for this kind of thing. You can, for example, search for “s\.” (s followed by a backslash then a full stop), then replace it with just “s”

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