On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:06:30AM -0800, Dave Ratcliffe 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>

Try this:

Find
(?!^)(</p>)

Replace
\n</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.

As a "not" operator, ^ is used to negate a character class: [^abc] matches
any character that's not a b or c.  "beginning-of-line" is not a character;
you can't create a negated character class to match
"not-beginning-of-line".

> I may be mixing up grep that I’m used to using in vi with grep the way
> it’s implemented in bbedit.

How would you do it in vi?


Ronald

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