grep only mail

[stefanofe]

how could I delete a text all but not the emails?
this find the mail...
\b[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,6}\b

but I mean finds everything but not this and erases

[Manan Joshi]

Try the following

findWhat (?s).*(\b[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,6}\b).*
changeTo $1

-Manan

[Peter Kahrel]

Your expressions delete the email addresses, Manan, don't they?

[Manan Joshi]

Ahh, apologies for doing the opposite of what was asked. I edited the reply with my take on the issue. Thanks, Peter for catching this one

-Manan

[stefanofe]

this works with one email, but I have a lot of them in a text and I wanted to get a list

[Peter Kahrel]

That produces a single long string of uninterrupted email addresses. You should probably change the replacement string to

$1\r

P. 

[FRIdNGE]

Hi Peter,

The post-posting correction (by Manan) is still annoying and unacceptable in my opinion. This makes following comments posted after the "wrong" answer and before the patch truly unreadable!
That's said, with or without "\ r" (your comment above), Manan's Grep code is still wrong (and can't be marked as "correct answer")!

Tested on:

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(^/)  The Jedi

[Peter Kahrel]

Michel -- You are correct that Manan's reply is not correct, and I hadn't even noticed the problem you point out now.

That said, you're hardly the best-placed person to call someone's answer annoying and unacceptable.

P.

[FRIdNGE]

Peter,

Read me more carefully: I've never written Manan's answer is "annoying and unacceptable"! I only talk about the fact to correct an answer after others have commented it!

Btw, even if my way is simple and relevant, there's another one you should have mentioned and I let you comment it! It's about "Grep Query Manager" script you wrote 10 years ago and the feature it includes to create the wanted list of emails directly found by Stefanofe's original Grep code!  😉

https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/grep_query_manager.html

Some days ago, Marc Autret posted a third (interesting) way ["DocGrepTextFindAll.jsx" script]:

https://github.com/indiscripts/IdGoodies/blob/master/snip/DocGrepTextFindAll.jsx

(^/)

[Manan Joshi]

Hi Michel,

So I don't think anything on my part was "annoying and unacceptable", as first I did not shy away from accepting that I made a mistake, and second I also properly mentioned that I am editing the answer. This is not a race in my opinion, that someone's answer is going to eclipse the others. My answer was wrong the first time and did not handle all the cases the next time, I got pointed for that by Peter and yourself. Your answer correctly handled the OP's need, that was acknowledged by the OP and Peter, what else is needed? No one can control the behaviour of someone marking/unmarking the answers correct, and I for sure did not mark my answer correct if you implied that, I have no liking for that to be really clear.

P.S. :- Editing incomplete/wrong answers is something that lots of folks do out here even veterans. The reason I do it is to keep the discussion thread clean and prevent the users from jumping from one comment to another.

-Manan

[FRIdNGE]

Grep is a complex matter lots don't understand clearly!

So keep answers that are not relevant seems to me more interesting because posters can explain why they are not correct and allows discussion about such a point.

But it's a personal point of view!  😉

I remember a topic some years ago where I did the same thing as you! ACPs were very angry about that and they didn't hesitate to openly say it to me! …

I thought first they were because it was me! [ =D ] … but then I realised they were totally right! With the nesting of responses without temporal logic in the Adobe new forums, it is even more true!

I just continue to correct posts ONLY IF there's no other answer written after them!

(^/)  😉

[Manan Joshi]

Ok, that's funny I see ACP's doing the same all the time. Anyhow, I do understand what you are trying to say and can relate to it. I will try and keep a balance of both approaches.

I would encourage you to write more often though, that way of all the things we will have more discussions on different threads and would know better how each one of us engages with folks around here. See you around 🙂

-Manan

[FRIdNGE · Accepted solution]

I like simplicity when I use Grep! …

Create a "condition" you call "email"!

1/ 

Find:  \b[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,6}\b

Replace by: $0\r   +   "condition email"

[your Grep code, not verified - let's say it's cool!  😉  ]

2/

Find: (?s).+   +   "no condition"

Replace by: nothing

Now your have your emails list!

(Remove the "condition email" in your "Conditions" panel)

(^/)  The Jedi

[stefanofe]

How do I create a condition?

[FRIdNGE]

Google: indesign create a condition

(^/)

[stefanofe]

Super! Thanks!