At 12:00 PM -0400 2007/08/21, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 11:27:46AM -0400, Chris Pepper wrote:
I believe BBEdit can do this, but I have been unable to parse
the answer out of "Conditional Subpatterns" in the Help's "Searching
with Grep", and suspect it's simple for folks here. I need to unwrap
configuration stanzas for a Big-IP load balancer. I want to perform
either one of 2 transformations:
a) If the last character on a line *is not* '}': remove the next return.
b) If the last character on a line *is* '}': leave the return,
and add 'b ' before the next line.
I think Search For should be '(.)\r', but I haven't been able
to gin up a suitable Replace With.
Conditional Subpatterns are for doing conditional matching, but what you
actually want is conditional *replacement*, which is not something you can
do with a simple grep.
Bummer. I don't want two actions, and I am not particularly
concerned with extra line breaks; this is a file of snippets I
selectively paste into a shell.
I went with a 2-step Text Factory (I already had one, but the
revised one is better):
GREP:
([^}]) *\r *
\1
No GREP:
}\r
}\r\rb
Thanks, all!
Chris
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