I have a similar situation and am wondering if this would work... The Find pattern you described will indeed find all of the URLs in my document, but if I want to replace each of them with the same root URL, (So, instead of href="\0", I could use href="example.com") is this something I could modify the script to do?
On Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 2:44:02 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > You can use Find/Replace to do this. Open the Find dialog from the Search > menu, check the "grep" box at the bottom which allows you to use regular > expressions, and use these patterns to start. The first find https:// > followed by the characters that are commonly found in URLs. The second > replaces that with an anchor tag with the found text \0 used twice. > > Find: https?://[a-zA-Z0-9/:\?&%=._\-+]+ > Replace: <a href="\0" target="_blank">\0</a> > > Find the first entry and if it needs replacing choose Replace and Find > Next or simply Find Next if it doesn't need replacing. Or, if you don't > have any links that are already formatted in the document you can do > Replace All. I have key shortcuts assigned to these so I can quickly work > through a document. > > The Pattern Playground on the Search menu is useful for playing around > with the find/replace patterns as well. > > Hope this helps, > > [fletcher] > > On Feb 4, 2021, at 11:24 AM, Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > this is my first post to this group. I hope I can express myself clearly > ... > > Can I use BBEdit to automatically convert lots of web addresses (e.g. > https://test.com) in an html document into hyperlinks? Perhaps by > assigning a <a> tag with "Search and replace" so that something like this > arises: <a href="https://test.com"; target="_blank"> https://test.com </ a > >? > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature > request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" > rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: < > https://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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/5d8eea22-1b3c-49ca-8ced-202402d196ean%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/5d8eea22-1b3c-49ca-8ced-202402d196ean%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/f5686aad-0a96-4eb4-a5a8-3d70fe63d9c1n%40googlegroups.com.
