In addition to the other fine books on regular expressions (grep's
"toolbox," if you will) mentioned by other responders to this BBEdit
group, I can recommend <i>Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes</i> by Ben
Forta (©2004 by Sams Publishing; ISBN 0-672-32566-7). I have the
Friedl book and, of course, the BBEdit manual, but it's the slim Forta
book that travels with my laptop's bag because it's comprehensive yet
svelte (102 pages if you subtract the appendices and index; 146 pages
in all).
Largely tutorial in nature, the Forta book also serves as a reference
book for me. Because it's handy, it's the first book I reach for if I
need to noodle out a regular expression problem. The $15 book also has
some "canned" regular expressions that can be used to work with such
things as ZIP codes (US, UK, Canada), US Social Security numbers,
credit card numbers, IP addresses, URLs, email addresses, and HTML-
and Java-style comments. It even has a link to a regular expression
tester ...
http://www.forta.com/books/0672325667/
... so you can hone your regex expertise.
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On Dec 19, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Chris wrote:
>
> 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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