I want to do a simple thing: capture text before and after the word "and" and output them in reverse order. The pictured macro would be a start, but the interface doesn't offer me a place to capture the two strings, as in the very few, very thin examples I've managed to find. (Monstrously large exam…

Oops! I needed .+, not +. in both captures. Maybe I'll make progress now.

This is the user interface I get when I replicate your Search action: [KM 0 2021-09-09_23-05-44] What version of Keyboard Maestro are you using - I'm on 9.2?

See above. I had +. where I needed .+.

It made no difference having +. or .+ to me - I still got the user interface I showed you! [KM 0 2021-09-09_23-17-17] Are you saying it's all OK now?

It works now. Using +. didn't even start to work. Maybe you had the other version and changed the regex string rather than starting over? Here's a working macro: reverse order.kmmacros (2.8 KB) [image]

[image] DrMajorBob: Maybe you had the other version and changed the regex string rather than starting over? Good try @DrMajorBob but I started with your version and then I created the version with the corrected regex! Well, whatever happened the important thing is that it's working for you! …

I've always been mightily annoyed that I have to copy the second thing, paste it before the first, and I still have to move and as well. Now I don't have to do that.

[image] DrMajorBob: I want to do a simple thing: capture text before and after the word "and" and output them in reverse order. If you're trying to swap the two words on either side of "and" then the macro Super Swap will handle that for you.

That’s great, but fully baked over-complicated examples are not useful for learning the basics.

Hey Bobby, I'm going to take a little different tack on this task. When asking about parsing text one should always provide adequate samples of the before and after conditions of the text. Sample 01: one and two Desired Outcome 01: two and one Sample 02 (selected text highlighted): Some text …