Sounds like a convoluted process.

Send a before and after example of the text manipulation you’re after (to this 
list), and I’m sure someone will take a look.

e.g. Have:

alpha<tab>beta

Want:

<b>alpha</b><br><i>beta</i>

Cheers


> On 2016-12-13, at 06:16, Peter White <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I use a Filemaker Pro database in my business. We use all Macs with macOS. I 
> need to send out a spreadsheet from time to time with wholesale prices to 
> some customers, and keep my website current with retail prices. I export a 
> .tab file from the database to a spreadsheet .xlsx that has several columns; 
> part numbers, descriptions, wholesale and retail prices. I can email this 
> spreadsheet to wholesale customers. Then, from Excel I want to export to 
> .html to post on the website after converting to a .php file.
> 
> The .php file will look up prices in another .tab file on the website. That 
> file is just a table with part numbers and retail prices for everything I 
> sell. I can update the prices on that file from time to time as needed just 
> by creating a new one from the database.
> 
> The .php file people will see on the web site will have three columns 
> displayed on the website; Part number, description and retail price. I'm 
> hoping I can use BBEdit to copy the part number from the first column into 
> the .php code in the third column. That way, when I update prices in my 
> database I can easily update both the wholesale price list spreadsheet, and 
> the .php web pages. When I look at the code on file to be published on the 
> web, I want to see only the .php code and the part number in the third column 
> of the table. I should only see the retail price in that column when it's 
> viewed in the web browser.
> 
> The problem is, I'm reading the BBEdit manual about grep and my head starts 
> to spin. So I'm hoping that someone here can point me to a quick and easy bit 
> of code that will do the job.

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