Initial conditions:
BBEdit 11.6.8
macOS 10.12.6 Sierra
AppleScript 2.5 with Script Editor 2.9
As part of my overall project, i have a small temporary text file where
i’ve collected my story chapter titles. At this stage of things, this file
is partly processed, related to earlier steps—which all work great. This is
the step where i finish processing it to syntactically-correct HTML, in
preparation for selecting all of it and copy/pasting into (an ordered list
in) another document.
A sample file is attached, for anyone who may wish to test/help. It’s short
enough that i can also paste it here:
1Quite An Introduction</a></li>
2Moving the Plot Forward</a></li>
3Things Get Messy</a></li>
4Life Is Better</a></li>
5Adulting Sucks!</a></li>
6Aging Is Worse</a></li>
7Let’s Not Talk About Late Life</a></li>
8Epilog</a></li>
My traditional workflow has the following Grep Find/Replace:
Grep Find, wrap around:
(\d\d?)(.+?)</a>
Replace:
<li><a href="ExampleStoryC\1.html" title="Example Story chapter \1:
\2">\2</a>
The end result should look like this (other than without the empty lines
between each <li> line):
<li><a href="ExampleStoryC1.html" title="Example Story chapter 1: Quite An
Introduction">Quite An Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="ExampleStoryC2.html" title="Example Story chapter 2: Moving
the Plot Forward">Moving the Plot Forward</a></li>
<li><a href="ExampleStoryC3.html" title="Example Story chapter 3: Things
Get Messy">Things Get Messy</a></li>
<li><a href="ExampleStoryC4.html" title="Example Story chapter 4: Life Is
Better">Life Is Better</a></li>
<li><a href="ExampleStoryC5.html" title="Example Story chapter 5: Adulting
Sucks!">Adulting Sucks!</a></li>
<li><a href="ExampleStoryC6.html" title="Example Story chapter 6: Aging Is
Worse">Aging Is Worse</a></li>
<li><a href="ExampleStoryC7.html" title="Example Story chapter 7: Let’s Not
Talk About Late Life">Let’s Not Talk About Late Life</a></li>
<li><a href="ExampleStoryC8.html" title="Example Story chapter 8:
Epilog">Epilog</a></li>
This works perfectly, done manually. I’m trying to script the same thing.
Here is my test script:
*set* StoryTitle *to* "Example Story"
*set* ConcatStoryTitle *to* "ExampleStory"
-- In reality, ^those titles^ are set and used much earlier in the much
longer overall script
*tell* *application* "BBEdit"
*tell* *text document* 1
*replace* "(\\d\\d?)(.+?)</a>" using "<li><a href=\"" & ConcatStoryTitle &
"C" & (*grep substitution* of ("\\1" *as* *text*)) & ".html\" " &
"title=\"" & StoryTitle & " chapter " & (*grep substitution* of ("\\1" *as*
*text*)) & ": " & (*grep substitution* of ("\\2" *as* *text*)) & "\">" & (*grep
substitution* of ("\\2" *as* *text*)) & "</a>" options {search mode:*grep*,
wrap around:*true*}
*end* *tell*
*end* *tell*
When i run the script, the Events look like this:
*tell* *application* "BBEdit"
*grep substitution* of "\\1"
*Result:*
*error* "BBEdit got an error: The replacement string couldn’t be computed,
because the previous Grep search did not succeed (application error code:
12003)" number 12003
I haven’t been able to figure out what i’m doing wrong. Looking forward to
learning something else new about scripting BBEdit.
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1Quite An Introduction</a></li>
2Moving the Plot Forward</a></li>
3Things Get Messy</a></li>
4Life Is Better</a></li>
5Adulting Sucks!</a></li>
6Aging Is Worse</a></li>
7Let’s Not Talk About Late Life</a></li>
8Epilog</a></li>
