Misread that part. Try this: (?<=<h2>)([\s\S]+?)(?=<h2>)
Cheers > On 2021-09-15, at 13:15, Sonic Purity <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] >> <applewebdata://A6C63D95-3E41-4ED7-95BF-72B46478D9D2>> 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/F8B467E3-9DF4-493B-8F39-33D76B616B34%40gmail.com.
