Patrick Keenan

Any regexp experts out there please help me! If i have a message such as "1 2 3 4, 5 6 7 8" and i want to remove the comma so i have "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8", does anyone know how?

Any regexp experts out there please help me!  If i have a message such as "1 2 3 4, 5 6 7 8" and i want to remove the comma so i have "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8", does anyone know how?

remove-comma-separating-2-lists-of-numbers

one of my hobbies is avoiding using regexp...;)

I like this, however what if my message contained 2 or more commas such as "1 2, 3 4 5, 6 7 8"?

Try thresh, it's a hack but works like a charm.

Amazing! I would never have thought of that, been trying to work my head around regular expressions with little success.

Amazing!  I would never have thought of that, been trying to work my head around regular expressions with little success.

regexp are the bomb, but it won't help you in this case. Remember, the commas turn messages into subsequent lists, therefore you have to regroup them together somehow even if you managed to remove the commas; hence thresh.

Otherwise just simply removing a character would be easy.

regexp are the bomb, but it won't help you in this case.  Remember, the commas turn messages into subsequent lists, therefore you have to regroup them together somehow even if you managed to remove the commas; hence thresh.

Otherwise just simply removing a character would be easy.


Yeah i was able to remove everything but a comma. I would have thought you would be able to use a \ in front of a comma like you can other metacharacters but obviously not. Thresh is doing nicely.

Yeah i was able to remove everything but a comma.  I would have thought you would be able to use a \ in front of a comma like you can other metacharacters but obviously not.  Thresh is doing nicely.

Remove comma separating 2 lists of numbers