nevermind I figured it out. anyone recommend grep tutorials or book?
thanks

solution:
find:  <col id="1">([^<]*)</col>
replace: <company>\1</company>

On Dec 19, 11:31 am, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am trying to use grep for a find and replace on an xml document.
> What I am trying to do is select  id="1"
> then select the closing element "/col" to change to "/company".
>
>         <row id="2">
>                 <col id="1">Sonitrol Corp.</col>
>                 <col id="2">Joseph Tranfaglia</col>
>                 <col id="3">1 Merrill St.</col>
>                 <col id="4">Woburn</col>
>                 <col id="5">MA</col>
>                 <col id="6">01801</col>
>                 <col id="7">www.sonitrol.com</col>
>                 <col id="8">508-649-2019</col>
>                 <col id="9">[email protected]</col>
>                 <col id="10">Electronice Security, Monitoring, Fire 
> Inspections</
> col>
>                 <col id="11">New England</col>
>         </row>

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