On 13/02/2013 02:32, Jim Harvey wrote:
I do some grep searching once in a while, but this one has me stumped. I have
some large text files, and I need to find the nth occurrence of a string (or
pattern).
Here's an AppleScript script that finds the 4th occurrence of "do" in
the front document. I expect someone can give you a less clumsy way to
do it.
set _regex to "do"
set _n to 4
set _i to 0
set _max to 1000 -- max possible occurrences
tell application "BBEdit" to tell the front document
activate
select insertion point before character 1
repeat _max times
set _i to _i + 1
find _regex ¬
options ¬
{search mode:grep} ¬
searching in its text ¬
with selecting match
if _i ≥ _n then
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
end tell
--JD
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