I have a file that has a few hundred lines, 77 of which are a HTML/XML style date element
<date>Tue, 15 Jun 2021 17:12:26 -0600</date> I have another files that has 77 date lines in the same format. Everything is different dates, obvs. I want to replace the first date in file 1 with the first date in file 2, and so on through the entire file. I haven't come up with a goos idea, though I think I have several BAD ideas. The one that seems least bad (but really bad) is to format the files with all 'blocks" onto a single line, then line up all the date fields, and copy and paste a multiline paste, but I figure by the time I have lined up the dates I'm spent more time than doing it by hand. I don't want to do it by hand, partly because I would rather waste hours figuring out how to do it than undertake the tediuous job, but nastily because I know going it by hand things will get borked. I swear I had a way to do this a couple o months ago. -- Steak and suspicious-organ pie -- 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/F344F73D-5BF3-4303-A86C-C02325EEFB29%40kreme.com.
