On Jan 29, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Warren Michelsen wrote:
Is it possible, as an alternate strategy, to specify that between
<td and </tr> there may be multiple lines? Treating the entire line
as one long line seems to complicate things. Is there no way to
specify any character at all, including newlines?
Worked just fine. The only drawback is that my Eudora turned
various characters of the pattern into sad smileys. Copied and
pasted just fine though.
Just out of curiosity, suppose I wanted to eliminate column N
instead of the last one. Is grep up to the task? (I'm certainly
not.) Such things as this would be nice to script:
Select a table, choose the "Delete Table Column" script from the
Scripts menu, respond with the number of the column to delete and
execute.
If that can be done, then it ought to be possible to add a column
as well, at column position N, etc.
If it can be assumed that you already know the layout of the code for
the table with a reasonable certainty, it is possible to write a Grep
pattern such as you hint at above.
For instance, if one could assume that your table is laid out as
follows:
<table summary="some summary info">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Header 1</th>
<th>Header 2</th>
<th>Header 3</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tr>
<td>Row 1 Column 1</td>
<td>Row 1 Column 2</td>
<td>Row 1 Column 3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 2 Column 1</td>
<td>Row 2 Column 2</td>
<td>Row 2 Column 3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 3 Column 1</td>
<td>Row 3 Column 2</td>
<td>Row 3 Column 3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 4 Column 1</td>
<td>Row 4 Column 2</td>
<td>Row 4 Column 3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 5 Column 1</td>
<td>Row 5 Column 2</td>
<td>Row 5 Column 3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 6 Column 1</td>
<td>Row 6 Column 2</td>
<td>Row 6 Column 3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 7 Column 1</td>
<td>Row 7 Column 2</td>
<td>Row 7 Column 3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 8 Column 1</td>
<td>Row 8 Column 2</td>
<td>Row 8 Column 3</td>
</tr>
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
Then if you did a GREP find/replace in BBEdit for:
([ \t]+<tr>[\r\n]+)([ \t]+<td>.*</td>[\r\n]+)([ \t]+<td>.*</td>[\r\n]
+)([ \t]+<td>.*</td>[\r\n]+)([ \t]+</tr>[\r\n]+)
Replacing with:
\1\2\4\5
You would remove Column 2 - the third of the five () delimited
patterns in the Find expression. If you instead wanted to remove the
first column, your replacement string would be:
\1\3\4\5
And so forth.
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