Hello, I am Peter Payne, and I've got a small problem with BBedit.
Essentially, I'm trying to make a script that will convert some
highlighted text -- say "we have various Gundam toys here" into an
affiliate link that I need to use to track clicks and subsequent
sales from that click. I've got it working quite well, although the
first grouping in my replace part (where I try to put what I want to
be searched for after the redirected.php?SEARCH/ part) needs some
more work, so that it puts various_Gundam_toys instead of "various
Gundam toys" with the spaces that will break my URL.
The Applescipt I'm using here here:
replace "(.+)" using "<a href='http://affiliates.jlist.com/click/19?
url=http://www.jlist.com/redirected.php?SEARCH/\\1' target='New'>\\1</
a>" searching in selection of text window 1 options {search
mode:grep, starting at top:false, wrap around:false, backwards:false,
case sensitive:false, match words:false, extend selection:false}
It currently changes this
We have various Gundam toys here.
into this
We have <a href='http://affiliates.jlist.com/click/19?url=http://
www.jlist.com/redirected.php?SEARCH/various Gundam toys'
target='New'>various Gundam toys</a> here.
This won't work though because "various Gundam toys" after my SEARCH/
part needs to be changed to "various_Gundam_toys."
I have wrestled with this for days but can't figure out how I could
"replace" the spaces in the first \\1 above with the "_" character.
Can anyone here point me in the right direction or give me a new
direction to proceed in? I'd really love to get this working.
