How do I remove everything except price?

Question

I have a messy list and I'm trying to get rid of everything except prices, which do have a dollar sign $ in front.

They don't have the same number of digits, though. Some are "$X.XX" and others are "$XX.XX"

And if possible, I'd like to be able to insert a "+" in between the prices, so it'll look something like "$X.XX+$XX.XX+..."

I tried searching, but the solutions didn't work for me (they used the pound symbol though, which might have needed a different query)

Answer 1

You can use this (should work with notepad++):

search: (?>[^$]+|\$(?!\d{1,2}\.\d{2}))*(\$\d{1,2}\.\d{2})
replace: $1+

(or search: .*?(\$\d{1,2}\.\d{2}) )

and you remove by hand the last +

Answer 2

The regex to match your prices would be

\$\d+\.\d+

where \$ is a dollar sign (remember you need to escape it because just $ means end of string, \d+ means at least one digit, \. a dot (again, escape because . means any character)

This will match to $1.2, $24.67 etc.

In Sublime Text, you could then remove everything else by using Find-Replace:

find: .*(\$\d*\.\d*).*

replace: $1

Example

product1 $14.22 categoryA
product2 $5.2 categoryA
product3 $0.2456 categoryB

would become

$14.22
$5.2
$0.2456