On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 05:30, BB Design <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm using BB Edit grep to select <a></a> links like this:
>
> (\<a.*\<\/a>)
>
> So I can paste the match using: \1
>
> However, I basically want to delete everything else in the document
> except these links, so that all I am left with is the links. Possible
> to modify my code to accomplish this? Thanks!
>
I'd use an Applescript to do this:
remove all Return characters -- gets everything on one line
replace <a with \r<a -- puts a Return before a link
replace /a> with /a>\r -- puts a Return after a link
Process lines containing <a and put them in a new document
Done.
Applescript experts would undoubtedly improve on this, but I just
tried it on the source of a random webpage and it appeared to do the
trick in a second or so:
-- This script pulls out all links
-- from an HTML source document
tell application "BBEdit"
activate
tell text 1 of text window 1
-- remove Returns
replace "\\r" using "" options {search mode:grep, starting at
top:true, wrap around:false, backwards:false, case sensitive:false,
match words:false, extend selection:false}
-- isolate links
replace "<a" using "\\r<a" options {search mode:grep, starting
at
top:true, wrap around:false, backwards:false, case sensitive:false,
match words:false, extend selection:false}
replace "/a>" using "/a>\\r" options {search mode:grep,
starting at
top:true, wrap around:false, backwards:false, case sensitive:false,
match words:false, extend selection:false}
-- put out lines with links
process lines containing matching string "<a" output options
{copying to new document:true}
end tell
end tell
-- end script
Cheers,
Miraz
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