ahhhh … Super Cool !   Thanks Jean !!

works like a charm.  



> On Mar 14, 2022, at 5:32 PM, jj <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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] 
>> <applewebdata://A44C3A34-DAF6-4B73-AAB6-6A2E5A2E23C7>> 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
>> 





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