Nick,
If you are not afraid of the command line, you could do this in terminal:
perl -pi.bak -e "s{</?t(able|r|d)[^>]*?>}{}gi" filename.html
This will make the changes you want on filename.html and make a backup called
filename.html.bak
Matt
On Jun 3, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Nick A wrote:
> 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
>>
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