My fiction writing workflow initially produces one HTML document with the entire novel’s content. Each chapter starts with <h2>Exciting Chapter Title Here</h2> then many paragraphs of story text with arbitrary HTML markup. I split each chapter into its own HTML page, containing everything from that first <h2> with the chapter title through the end of the chapter, which is always immediately before the subsequent opening <h2> for the following chapter (in the original un-split document).
Working manually, i’ve been using the Grep Find: <h2>([\s\S]+?)<h2> This works perfectly, other than it includes the <h2> at the start of the next chapter in the selection i’m about to cut or copy into a new HTML document. I manually back off the selection to include everything found minus that ending <h2>. I would like to better automate my workflow, but can’t with the need for this manual adjustment. Re-reading the Grep help file with BBEdit, i thought lookahead might help. I tried: <h2>([\s\S]+?)(?<h2>) but that just finds the first <h2> and one character immediately following it. Noticing that BBEdit is highlighting the < for that second <h2>, i tried escaping it: <h2>([\s\S]+?)(?\<h2>) This throws a PCRE error: unrecognized character after (? or (?- (12) Can anyone suggest a search string that will accomplish my goal? (BBEdit 11.6.8 running under macOS 10.12.6 Sierra.) Thanks! -- 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/de7c4288-00f9-4aa9-9546-4e7637fcf007n%40googlegroups.com.
