Thank you, but all that does for me is select that one entire chapter heading, not the entire chapter heading plus all the paragraphs of text below. In other words in my example that string selects Exciting Chapter Title Here, but nothing else.
On Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 4:03:49 PM UTC-7 Tom Robinson wrote: > Try this, using positive lookahead and lookbehind assertions: > > (?<=<h2>).+(?=</h2>) > > Cheers > > > On 2021-09-15, at 09:57, Sonic Purity <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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/7d92c4bf-2bf0-49af-b072-ca870c7fd145n%40googlegroups.com.
