GREP not prices

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    • August 20, 2014 at 4:13 pm #70197
      nellbern
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      Would like to find all prices instances on a document & replace them with a tab

      The following grep expression works:
      note: i’m using \\ escape characters because i’m using applescript

      (\\$?)\\d+\\.\\d{2} which find any prices including or not the $ symbol Example: $1.99 $12.99 $445.99 15.99 4.99
      this one works too [[=$=]]?[[:digit:]]?[[:digit:]][[=.=]][[:digit:]][[:digit:]]

      but it’s also find digits that fall on the same category but they are not prices. Like: 1.99 oz or 22.45 lts or 5.44 ozs & it’s replace them with a tab leaving the word oz, lts & ozs. I tried lookahead (\\$?)\\d+\\.\\d{2}(?! OZ|oz|lts|ozs) but still it doesn’t work. What am i’m doing wrong?

    • August 26, 2014 at 7:32 am #70257
      Masood Ahmad
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      Would it be possible for you to provide some more text with a desired output (manually). I’m unable to figure out what applescript has to do with your prices. In your example, I can’t see any backslashes.

    • October 2, 2014 at 12:25 pm #70859
      Aaron Troia
      Participant

      You might try grouping your alternations like (?! (OZ|oz|lts|ozs)) or (?! (?:OZ|oz|lts|ozs)) so that it’s non-capturing.

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