I've looked into it a bit more and I've realized that I'm going to need to get good at regular expressions to become a half-way decent worker; they seem really powerful for automating monotonous tasks and working quickly. Thanks for pointing me that way.
I tried Alex's suggestion and it picked up all the <table>,</ table>,<tr>,</tr>,<td> and </td> tags without picking up any others, so it worked well. Now I'm stuck with a search window that lists all the tags that were found, but I don't know how to delete them all. Intuitively I want to select all and delete, but it doesn't seem to work like that. Using the find/find all/replace dialog box doesn't seem to be able to do it all at once. How do I do this all at once? Thanks everyone. I'll refer back to the more detailed GREP responses once I understand GREP a bit better. Nick On Jun 3, 6:12 am, Gabriel Roth <[email protected]> wrote: > Nick— > > In case you don't know: the suggestions from Alex and Kendall use grep, > which is a powerful way of finding characters that match specified patterns. > To use it, you'll want to enter the pattern in the 'Find' dialog and make > sure that the 'grep' box is checked. > > For more information on grep, which is one of BBEdit's most useful tools, > read chapter 8 in the BBEdit manual, available from the Help menu. It gives > quite a good introduction. > > gr. > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Kendall Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: > > You'll want to make that less greedy (using *?) so it doesn't take out > > too much. You can also simplify by moving the </? outside the > > parentheses so it doesn't need to be repeated. > > > </?(table|tr|td)[^>]*?> > > > A little less readable, but we can move the 't' out as well. > > > </?t(able|r|d)[^>]*?> > > > -Kendall > > > On Jun 3, 12:13 am, Alex Satrapa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 03/06/2010, at 10:39, Nick A <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > I'm just smashing all the table tags so that I can keep his content > > > > and re-style it with CSS once all the tables are gone. How do I select > > > > all <table>,</table>,<tr>,</tr>,<td> and </td> at once and delete > > > > them? > > > > Find (</?table|</?tr|</?td|</?tr)[^>]*> and replace with '' might work. > > > > Alex Satrapa | web.mac.com/alexsatrapa | Ph: 0407 705 332 > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > > "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<bbedit%[email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en > > If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, > > please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group.
