Thanks very much for this Kendall, I very much appreciate it. I managed to
get to the same step as yourself with Grep in the end but couldn't manage
the dashes part.
My grep pattern is practically the same as your own:
Find:
\[(.*)\][[]]
Replace:
[\1](#\L\1\E)
I struggled a little to get the perl script going but fortunately
Christoper Stone emailed me an Apple Script he wrote that also works well
and I simply put in the scripts folder of BBEdit. Thanks again. I am
astonished at how much help was offered to me in so short a time!
Simon.
On Sunday, August 26, 2012 8:35:22 PM UTC+1, Kendall Conrad wrote:
>
> Using just grep alone I don't see a way to fully do this. The closest I
> could come up with is:
>
> find: \[ ([^\]]+)\]\[\]
> Replace: [ \1](#\L\1)
>
> This will turn
> [ Charging for School Activities][]
> into
> [ Charging for School Activities](#charging for school activities)
>
> This still leaves the spaces that need translating into dashes in anchor
> portion. If you're not afraid of using Perl, you can use a unix filter.
>
> -----------
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> while (<>) {
> if ($_ =~ m/\[ ([^\]]+)\]\[\](.*)$/) {
> ($n2=$1) =~ tr/A-Z /a-z\-/;
> print "[ $1](#$n2)$2\n";
> }
> else {
> print "$_";
> }
> }
> -----------
> You can run this from the #! menu.
>
> -Kendall
>
>
>
> On Sunday, August 26, 2012 11:36:05 AM UTC-4, psilas wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to convert Multimarkdown internal links to Pandoc ones,
>> and from reading my BBEdit manual it seems like it would be easiest to
>> use grep to accomplish this (that is if someone can help me with the
>> regular expression I would need).
>>
>> Multimarkdown handles internal links like so:
>>
>> [ Charging for School Activities][]
>>
>> and I use these in my table of contents to link to the Header
>> "Charging for School Activities".
>>
>> to do the same thing in I would to write
>>
>> [ Charging for School Activities](#charging-for-school-activites)
>>
>> After looking at how to use grep I realised I could spend a long time
>> trying to get this right. I have a long table of contents in a number
>> of documents.
>>
>> Can anyone help please?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Simon.
>>
>
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