Hi Devon, This AppleScript script <https://gist.github.com/mixio/0cc693aa710e42ebae2a6094141b2971> should help you to select the inner contents of any Nth <tag>.
HTH, Jean Jourdain On Monday, March 14, 2022 at 8:53:48 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > Thanks Sam. That grep pattern is fantastic! > > We can have a small worksheet with the grep pattern. We’ll search for N-1, > then in the worksheet select <Session> and cmd+E, toggle to the data file > window and cmd+G to find the next one. 😎 > > If this becomes a needed routine we’ll create something with XPath. > > Thanks! > > dEVoN > > > > On Mar 14, 2022, at 11:48, Sam Birch <[email protected]> wrote: > > Devon, > > XPath is probably the right move here, to be honest. > > That said, BBEdit can select everything up to (and including) the 200th > occurrence of <Session> with this regular expression: > > (?s)(.*?<Session>){200} > > Hope this helps. > -sam > > On 14 Mar 2022, at 13:51, Devon Hubbard wrote: > > We have the need to search through a ton of transactional data for things > like the 200th occurrence of <Session> to dig into that specific node. One > of our team members is thinking of writing an XPath thing, but then we > thought there might be a way to do with this in BBEdit. Not through any > grep magic I've been able to get working so far. Maybe a cool extension > out there that does this? > > 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/23ddce74-7d65-49c4-836b-2001e2c5a94dn%40googlegroups.com.
