On Sep 30, 2016, at 16:53, jgill <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I need to extract the date from <h3>September 30th</h3> in a HTML document
>
> I can search using - set theMonth to find "<h3>\\s*(.*?)\\s*</h3>
> <smb://s*</h3>>" searching in text 1 of text document "index.html" options
> {search mode:grep} with selecting match
>
> How can I access the \1 reference inside the brackets in Applescript?
Hey Joe,
As far as I know you can't in find operations, although you can in replace
operations.
Find with selecting found string is a poor way to do a replace – it's slow and
cumbersome – although it can be the only way to accomplish jobs under some
circumstances.
The better way is to use replace (if it works for that job):
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tell application "BBEdit"
replace "MATCH" using "REPLACE" options {search mode:grep, case
sensitive:false, starting at top:true}
end tell
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Otherwise you may have to do something like this:
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tell application "BBEdit"
tell front document
set foundTextRecord to find "<h3>\\s*(.*?)\\s*</h3> <smb://s*</h3>>"
options {search mode:grep, starting at top:true} with selecting match
set foundText to found text of foundTextRecord
set parsedText to replace "<h3>\\s*(.*?)\\s*</h3> <smb://s*</h3>>"
searchingString foundText using "\\1 <smb://1>" options {search mode:grep, case
sensitive:false, starting at top:true}
end tell
end tell
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And that's why I generally prefer to use the Satimage.osax for find and
find/replace operations.
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# Requires the Satimage.osax
# http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/downloads/downloads_companion_osaxen.html
<http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/downloads/downloads_companion_osaxen.html>
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set _text to bbeditFrontWinText()
try
set parsedText to find text "<h3>\\s*(.*?)\\s*</h3> <smb://s*</h3>>" in
_text using "\\1 <smb://1>" with regexp and string result without all
occurrences
on error
set parsedText to false
end try
if parsedText ≠ false then
# DO SOMETHING
end if
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--» HANDLERS
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on bbeditFrontWinText()
tell application "BBEdit"
tell front document to its text
end tell
end bbeditFrontWinText
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Although I will often turn to a Perl, awk, or sed text filter when it's
efficient to do so.
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Best Regards,
Chris
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