Appreciated Jean! It works as if miraculous. If you would accept a further challenge: how can the expression also find instances when only one of the attributes is present? bonus challenge: and if the attributes are not in that order? Great big thanks
On Wednesday, August 25, 2021 at 4:53:49 PM UTC+3 jj wrote: > > Hi BBLuv, > > Find: > > <ANIMAL[^>]+NAME="([^"]*)"[^>]+LIKES="([^"]*)"[^>]*> > > Replace: > > \1 -- \2 > > and use the Extract button of the find window. > > HTH > > Jean Jourdain > > On Wednesday, August 25, 2021 at 2:12:48 PM UTC+2 BBLuv wrote: > >> Hi - non technical user here, proud to have figured out part of my goal. >> >> I have multiple XML files that I am trying to scan through to pluck out >> instances of tag attributes. The XML looks like this, and I want to extract >> the NAME and LIKES attributes across the files. >> >> <ANIMAL NAME="Fluffy" SPECIES="dog" LIKES="bones" AGE="6"> >> >> Using grep + extract I am able to produce this: >> >> search = (?<=NAME=").*?(?=")|(?<=LIKES=").*?(?=") >> output = >> Fluffy >> bones >> Tiger >> chewtoys >> Rusty >> mailmen >> >> I would love output that includes my own text: >> Fluffy -- bones >> Tiger -- chewtoys >> Rusty -- mailmen >> >> or at least has the output values in one line per XML tag >> Fluffy bones >> Tiger chewtoys >> Rusty mailmen >> >> I learned the pipe character lets me make multiple extractions but I am >> not able to control the output. >> >> Can you help? >> >> Thanking you... >> >> >> >> -- 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/089902e0-34e3-4d08-b2b0-5581e8b195a2n%40googlegroups.com.
