You are welcome, Mark. To give you a head start, with manual references: "(?s)" extends the search over line endings (p. 188)
".+?HELLO" searches text up through the first occurrence of HELLO (non- greedy matching, p. 177) "(?=HELLO)" says to search up to "HELLO" but not include "HELLO" in the found text (positive lookahead, pp. 187,190). Parentheses around "HELLO" are a stylistic choice and don't affect this search, though they might be important in other, more complicated searches. Steve On Mar 10, 2:49 pm, Simdude <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow. Thanks Steve. I have to give this a try as soon as I get home. > And I guess it's time to dig into the BBedit docs some more! > > On Mar 10, 2:35 pm, Steve Samuels <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Searching for "(?s).+?(HELLO)" will select all text from the cursor > > up through the first "HELLO" and "(?s).+?(?=HELLO)" will select all > > text up to first "HELLO">. > > > Steve > > > On Mar 10, 8:35 am, Simdude <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks Chris. I did know about the selection operations but when you > > > have to do this repeatedly in a file, it's not as efficient. Scripting > > > is probably a better option but I'll have to improve my Applescript > > > skills to be able to do this faster. > > > > For any Barebones guys, adding something like to to a future BBedit > > > would be a killer feature. With the help of some books, I've used vi > > > to rearrange sections of large documents by using commands like this > > > to find and move sections. The problem is while you can do this with > > > a single line in vi, it can take 30 minutes to figure out what to type > > > in that line! > > > > Mark > > > > On Mar 9, 5:26 pm, Christopher Stone <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > On Mar 09, 2011, at 10:28, Simdude wrote:> Is there a way in BBedit to > > > > operate on ranges of data? For example, when I use vi, if I want to do > > > > a search and replace on all text from my current cursor to the line > > > > that contains "HELLO", I would do this: > > > > > > :.,/HELLO/ s/this/that/g > > > > > > Can BBedit do this sort of range stuff? > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > Hey Mark, > > > > > Not directly. But you can script that kind of search, or you can > > > > find/replace in the current selection. So you could find + 'extend > > > > selection' to select your range and then find/replace *within* the > > > > range. > > > > > -- > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Chris -- 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. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
