Thanks. The sed example turned out to be recursive. Page 189 on the current beta manual.
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 1:15 PM, @lbutlr <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 6, 2017, at 4:05 PM, Lee Hinde <[email protected]> wrote: > > <a href="/catalogView.html?4;24;1::::::::::Page=1;Bran=512033"> > > > > I want to change all occurrences of a semi-colon within a url to > something else, like &. > > > > I started with this search string: > > > > (href=\".*);(.*\"[ ,>]) > > > > and this replacement string: > > > > \1\&\2 > > One issue is that what you are replacing is contained in what you want to > replace WITH, so you need to replace the semicolons that aren't part of the > '&' string. > > You'll need to check the BBEdit manual on this, starting not he bottom of > page 187 of the 11.6 manual. > > "Positional Assertions > > Positional assertions “anchor” a pattern, without actually matching any > characters." > > (?<!amp); > > For example. > > -- > Apple broke AppleScripting signatures in Mail.app, so no random signatures. > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
