GREP to find words before or after > symbol

Hi Jakec,

Basically a GREP like

\w([^\r>]+\w)*

would do a very good job (including when the menu item contains inner space), since it captures every string that starts and ends with a word character while not containing any >.

Now, what you want is to make sure that the pattern above is either preceded by >\s, or followed by \s>, in order to exclude lines that do not contain the X > Y > … > Z structure at all. So in fact you have an alternation of two distinct regex, first based on a lookbehind, second based on a lookahead:

The lookbehind form is:

(?<=>\s)\w([^\r>]+\w)*

The lookahead form is:

\w([^\r>]+\w)*(?=\s>)

So your final GREP is:

((?<=>\s)\w([^\r>]+\w)*)|(\w([^\r>]+\w)*(?=\s>))

@+

Marc