You can tailor your regular expression to only find one match. I use [\s\S]* to
defeat the tendency of .* to match only within a single line.
replace "([\\s\\S]*?)find string([\\s\\S]*)" using "\\1replace string\\2"
searching in text 1 of project window 1 options {search mode:grep, starting at
top:true}
Or, you can do a find, capturing it into the current selection, and then do a
replace within that selection.
find "find string" searching in text 1 of project window 1 options {starting at
top:true} with selecting match
replace ".*" using "replace string" searching in selection of project window 1
options {search mode:grep}
Hope this helps,
[fletcher]
> On May 26, 2020, at 9:36 PM, Hal Day <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am learning to use AppleScript for BBEdit to do find/replace editing. I
> find that replace does "replace all", and have not discovered how one does a
> single find/replace.
>
> Could someone explain that, and could someone tell me where to get good,
> detailed information on this topic. I find the BBEdit manual very brief on
> AppleScripting.
>
> My thanks.
>
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