This makes the process of creating complicated patterns much less trial-and-error, since you can see exactly what will match, and how, before committing to any. Burstein’s BBEdit Grep Tutorial, which hasn’t needed updating since 2004 (nearly 12 years as of this writing). In BBEdit, select Multi-File Search from the Search Menu, and paste your chosen expression into the Find: box. About BBEdit Pattern Playgrounds The 'Pattern Playground' window provides an interactive interface for experimenting with the behavior of Grep patterns (regular expressions). My favourite reference for BBEdit-specific Grep for years now has been Cari D. Using a text editor capable of search-and-replace using regular expressions - like BBEdit (It still doesn’t suck®) - allows you to save the pattern in the Find… window’s Patterns list (the “g” button) for later reuse. Some of the biggest changes in BBEdit relate to grep. Which renders as tappable links (complete with a tel class you can use to style them with a suitably-sized tap target on smartphones): BBEdit 13 adds over 100 new features, including new grep (regular expansions) capabilities, an expanded Dark Mode support, and much more. The result of clicking the Replace All button: The question marks in this pattern allow it to work with or without a leading 1, spaces, parentheses (), or hyphens -.īBEdit’s Find… window (with Grep enabled):
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Simple search-and-replace fails because if the formatting varies even a little from number to number it becomes a time-consuming, manual process. When I want to turn phone numbers in web copy into tappable links for smartphones - without relying on mobile browsers to do so - this regular expression saves me a lot of time. Converting phone numbers to links using Grep in BBEdit
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