As far as I know, there is no one-pass solution to this problem. (I'd love to
know if there is.) But there' a simple quick-and-dirty multi-pass solution.
Here's one way to do it.
First, add a some character that doesn't occur anywhere else in the file to the
beginning of each month line. I'm using a bullet here:
Find: ^\s*[a-z]+ \d{4}$
Replace: •&
Replace all
Gives us
• April 2020
(Individual talks will be added before the end of the month for a
while.)
[play audio] 25 Being Responsible
[play audio] 24 In the Land of Wrong View
[play audio] 05 Owners of Our Actions
[play audio] 04 Wealth & Strength
[play audio] 03 A Skillful Heart
[play audio] 02 Stop & Think
[play audio] 01 A Mirror for the Mind
• March 2020
Full month zip
[play audio] 31 Worry
[play audio] 30 Put the Other Person’s Heart in Yours
...
Next, write a pattern to replace the first (if any) [play audio] line in each
month:
Find: (?s)(^•\s*([a-z]+) (\d{4})\n[^•]*?)(\[play audio\] (\d\d))
Replace: \1\3-\2-\5
Replace all
Gives us:
• April 2020
(Individual talks will be added before the end of the month for a
while.)
2020-April-25 Being Responsible
[play audio] 24 In the Land of Wrong View
[play audio] 05 Owners of Our Actions
[play audio] 04 Wealth & Strength
[play audio] 03 A Skillful Heart
[play audio] 02 Stop & Think
[play audio] 01 A Mirror for the Mind
• March 2020
Full month zip
2020-March-31 Worry
[play audio] 30 Put the Other Person’s Heart in Yours
[play audio] 29 Protection Through Mindfulness
...
Now just keep hitting Cmd-Shift-= repeatedly, replacing the first unprocessed
line of each month each time, until it fails. (If you have no more than a
hundred [play audio] lines per month, this will take no more than a couple of
minutes — i.e., much less time than it would take to find a smarter solution.
If you have a thousand lines in a month, you will need some other solution.
Finally, one last search-and-replace will delete all the bullet that you
inserted in step one.
Regards,
Neil Faiman
> On Apr 30, 2020, at 3:10 PM, Peter Kaufman <pkauf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I love BBEdit (v13.0.6) and hope this can do the trick! I would rather not
> have to resort to sed/awk/cut/paste.
>
> INPUT:
> April 2020
> (Individual talks will be added before the end of the month for a
> while.)
> [play audio] 25 Being Responsible
> [play audio] 24 In the Land of Wrong View
> [play audio] 05 Owners of Our Actions
> [play audio] 04 Wealth & Strength
> [play audio] 03 A Skillful Heart
> [play audio] 02 Stop & Think
> [play audio] 01 A Mirror for the Mind
> March 2020
> Full month zip
> [play audio] 31 Worry
> [play audio] 30 Put the Other Person’s Heart in Yours
> [play audio] 29 Protection Through Mindfulness
> [play audio] 28 Inner Worlds
> [play audio] 27 Four Mountains Moving In
> [play audio] 26 Interdependence
> [play audio] 25 Endurance & Contentment
> [play audio] 24 Alone Together
> [play audio] 23 Remembering Luang Lung
> [play audio] 12 Virtues and Values (Brazil)
> February 2020
> Full month zip
> [play audio] 16 Between Right & Wrong
> [play audio] 14 Know the Dhamma by Its Results
> [play audio] 13 The Third and a Half Noble Truth
>
> OUTPUT:
> Each [play audio] \d\d would be replaced with the previous YYYY-MONTH-\d\d
> e.g.
> 2020-April-25 Being Responsible
> : : :
> 2020-April-01 A Mirror for the Mind
> 2020-March-31 Worry
> : : :
>
>
> I know how to start this incantation:
> \W*(January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December)
> (\d\d\d\d)\n.*$(\W*\[play audio\] (\d\d) (.*$)){1,}
>
> But not how to do this. Are there variables one can assign within BBEdit? I
> hate to leave BBEdit in order to apply sed/awk/grep.
>
> Thanks in advance!!!
>
> Peter
>
>
>
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