On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 05:02:00PM -0700, Semper Fidelis wrote:
> If you literally mean "(?s)^Note:.*?(?=^RULE)", then you could achieve
> the effect you want by escaping all the regex characters in BBEdit's
> "Search for: field, then surround the whole thing with matching
> parentheses, as follows ...
>
> (\(\⌀?s\)\^Note:\.\*\?\(\?=\^RULE\))
>
> ... and then in the "Replace With:" field specify ...
>
> \t\1
>
> ... to prepend a tab in front of your escaped regex phrase, wherever that
> phrase may occur in your document.
That won't work in this case; he's searching for multi-line text.
I haven't used text factories, but this is how I would do it in Perl:
#!perl
local $/;
while (<>) {
s{^(Note:.*?)(?=^RULE)}{ my $x = $1; $x =~ s,^,\t,gm; $x }smge;
print;
}
__END__
I assume you'd do something similar in a text factory; do a search for a
block of text, do a search & replace within that block of text, and then
insert the result back into the file.
Ronald
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