The easiest way off hand that I can think of would be:

find: (.</p>)$
replace with: \n\1


On Dec 14, 12:06 pm, Dave Ratcliffe <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to replace the following sort of strings in a very large
> text file (where “some_text” is one or more of any group of printable
> characters, and “$” is eol):
>
> some_text</p>
>
> with:
>
> some_text$
> </p>
>
> And I'm trying, unsuccessfully, to remember how to write the
> expression in the Find: text box of the Find window that uses the '^'
> character in both forms as “beginning-of-line” and as the “not”
> operator.  In English, it would be writing a regular expression for
> something like:
>
> For every occurrence of not-the-beginning-of-line, followed by “</p>”,
> insert a line feed in front of “</p>”.
>
> I may be mixing up grep that I’m used to using in vi with grep the way
> it’s implemented in bbedit.
>
> I would be very grateful to learn some way of inserting a “\n” line
> feed in between “some_text” and “</p>”
>
> Running bbedit 9.6.1 on Mac OS 10.5.8.

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