It's not clear what you want. Do you want to remove all words that aren't "test" or numbers? Do you want to remove the words "thought", "tot" and "tesset"? Do you want to remove all words, except the 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th? Do you want to remove all words that start and end with a "t", but don't have "es" (and nothing else) between them?

Being able to properly formulate what you want a regex to do solves the problem for 90%. Stating your problem by simple example just leaves people guessing.

Abigail

In reply to Re: A regex that does this, but not that? by Abigail-II
in thread A regex that does this, but not that? by bradcathey

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