Thanks! On Monday, August 13, 2018 at 7:01:21 PM UTC+2, Patrick Woolsey wrote: > > On 8/13/18 at 11:27 AM, jerry....@gmail.com <javascript:> (Jerry Nilson) > wrote: > > >Cannot figure out (new to this) how to write a grep search to match: > ><description><![CDATA[data1: 2820<br>data2 (m): <br>data3: word > >word<br>data4: XX-7-3056<br>data5:<br>data1: 2820<br>data2 (m): > ><br>data3: word word<br>data4: XX-7-3056<br>data5: ]]></description> > > > >Where I want to substitute all similar lines with: > ><description></description> > > > >Thought I could write: > ><description>.*</description> > >or possibly with a ? after, but seems I may need more escape > >characters here because some of the characters to be deleted > >are also grep characters? Tried witch escapes too, but cannot > >get it quite right apparently ... . > > > One potential catch here is that by default the . metacharacter > doesn't match past hard line breaks, so if the desired data > spans one or more lines, a pattern like this: > > Find: <description>.*</description> > > won't work. > > You can however modify this behavior by pre-pending the pattern > modifier (?s), and then for insurance adding a ? to prevent the > match from being 'greedy', making a search pattern: > > Find: <description>(?s).*?</description> > > so please give that a try. :-) > > > Regards, > > > > Patrick Woolsey > > == > > Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com/> > > >
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