To avoid leading spaces in the results, add a whitespace character \s* to the end. This will remove everything before the first colon and trim any spaces right after it: Pattern: ^[^:]*:\s* =RegExpReplace(A5, "^[^:]*:\s*", "") Tip.Besides regular expressions, Excel has its ...
With classic regular expressions, anything outside a capturing group is not included in the extraction. No one knows why VBA RegEx works differently and captures "@" as well. To get rid of it, you canremove the first characterfrom the result by replacing it with an empty string. =REPLACE(...
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Every extended pattern is written as a parenthetical group with a question mark as the first character. Notice that the = or ! is always last. The directional indicator (<) is only present in the look-behind and comes before the positive or negative indicator. Look-behind expressions cannot ...
Finally, I should point out that there's an extended version of the dialog template, DLGTEMPLATEEX, that lets you specify even more fields like the point size and weight, whether to use italics, the character set, and typeface name. See the documentation for more information; I'll only des...
In this particular case I only want toremove the spaceright before "feat", because if I save the remaining info to a variable and then use it to, let's say, rename a file, it will add the space, which is not what I need.
Run thegrepcommand below to search for every string line that begins with a capital letter in theGPL-3file. This command is similar to matching sets of characters, but instead, you use the predefined character class[:upper:]. sudogrep--color=always"^[[:upper:]]"GPL-3 ...
This specific symbol has two meanings. In short, when added as the first character in a regex pattern, it means “the beginningof the searched string”, however, if it’s used between square brackets, it means “everything but“. Both of these are explained later because they need more ...
\U converts everything up to the next \L or \E to uppercase \L converts everything up to the next \U or \E to lowercase \u converts the next character to uppercase \l converts the next character to lowercase \E turns off case conversion \l\U combo makes the first character ...
every character including the linefeed character. If you do not intend to capture the linefeed character with your regular expression, specify tokens other than the dot character in your regular expression. For example, to match everything except the linefeed character, use the expression[^\n]....