Bull,  AS - good idea. Thanks for this. It's new to me. More homework.
Thanks for the help.

Ptarmigan

On Jan 10, 4:36 pm, Bull <[email protected]> wrote:
> Will an AppleScript do it? I recently had a similar problem and came
> up with:
>
> repeat n times
> tell application "BBEdit"
> activate
> find "your grep search pattern" searching in text 1 of text document 1
> options {search mode:grep, starting at top:true, wrap around:false,
> backwards:false, case sensitive:false, match words:false, extend
> selection:false} with selecting match
> cut selection
> make new text document at text window 1
> paste
> end tell
> end repeat
>
> document 1 was the front window. I had 800 things to extract so I set
> n to 800, and wound up with 800 open files.
> The problem I had then was to automate the saving of the resulting
> file with a unique filename.
>
> Bull
> Blacksburg VA
>
> On Jan 10, 9:27 am, Ptarmigan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I have inserted the word CODE at intervals in a file
>
> > I have grepped the file using : CODE(?s).*?(?=CODE)
>
> > This grep selects chunks of the file as required. Great.
>
> > However, I am not sure how to get each chunk into a separate .txt file
> > via BBEdit's text processing tools. I don't wanna do this manually.
>
> > Suggestions ?
>
> > Ptarmigan
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