Jim, thanks very much for your help! Thank you also for pointing me in the right direction in the manual. I am having trouble understanding the stuff before the advanced topics, so I hadn't gotten there. I see the area you referenced now.
Doug On 6/9/06, Jim Correia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jun 9, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Doug Knapp wrote: > My question is how find and replace something that has two consistent > markers, but a lot of variation inbetween, that covers multiple lines. > e.g.: > > <head> > <varying tags> > other text not in tags > <more> stuff > <title> > > I want to replace everything between <head> and <title> > > Through reading the BBEdit manual, I was able to find out .*? would > act as my non-greedy wildcard except that it get caught on the line > breaks. The pattern modifier (?s) will allow . to match \r in the rest of the expression. (This is discussed in the "Advanced Grep Topics" in the help.) The following pattern should do the trick: <head>(?s).*?<title> Jim
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