At 8:19 AM -0700 1/29/07, Warren Michelsen wrote:
I'm trying to use a grep find to eliminate the last column in a
table. I'm not able to get grep to find the last instance of
<td.*</td> before a </tr>.
<td.*
will find the opening tag
and
.*</tr> will find just the row closing tag but
<td.*</td>
will not find the entire column.
That's because . doesn't match a newline. Use something like [\s\S]*
or the pattern modifier (?s).
I'd thought I could find something like:
<td.*</td>.*</tr>
and replace it with </tr>
The table has hundreds of lines and I'd like to use find/replace but
I obviously don't know the correct pattern to find that last column.
The other problem you'll run into is greedy searches. See the BBEdit
help page on grep for details, but you want something like this (not
tested):
(?s)<td.*?</td>.*?</tr>
--
/Jonathan Lundell.
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