I have a text file that is formatted like this: 1#some text 1#goes here 1#not hard wrapped 1#to the line length 2#while other text 2#is here 3#some here 4#also here 4#and there and everywhere
and continuing on for a few thousand increments and many thousands of lines. (that is, there are over 2000 numbers and over 5000 lines). I need to end up with this: # some text goes here, hard wrapped to the line length # while other text is here # some here # also here and there and everywhere (that is, I need to strip the numbers, but I need to keep each text block together on a single line). The specific formatting at the end isn't the issue, I can do that, it's grouping the lines based on the numbering that is the issue. Even if I could just get to 1#some text #goes here #not hard wrapped #to the line length 2#while other text #is here 3#some here 4#also here #and there and everywhere That would get me close enough to deal with the rest of the formatting. I was reading Chapter 8 thinking there was a way to do this with grep, and I think there is a way with the negative look-ahead, but once again when trying to figure it out my brain melted a little. Something like (^\d+)#(.*)$ . . . (?!\1) BTW, in googling for info, I found this page <http://caspar.bgsu.edu/~courses/Stats/Labs/Handouts/grepadvanced.htm> Which appears to simply be an html-ization of a portion of the BBEdit manual. -- "There's sex and death and human grime in monochrome for one thin dime and at least the trains all run on time but they don't go anywhere." -- -- 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> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
