Hi Devon,

Good to know it worked.
I just updated the Gist to try to fix a "macOS error code: -2706"  that 
could happen when running the script on big files.

Jean

On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 2:53:42 AM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:

> 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]> 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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