Thanks so much! This did the trick. I've been familiarizing myself with multi-file search and am very excited to now have such a powerful tool to use for these repetitive tasks. Hoping to learn more about grep as well as Text Factory
On Monday, October 10, 2022 at 4:46:33 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > The find pattern would be "<iframe.*?</iframe>" with "Grep" checked. You > can use the Multi-File Search... dialog to run this against a folder > containing your .txt files to see how many matches there are. > > When I'm doing multi-file work like this I'll usually start out doing a > Find All in the multi-file dialog and looking at all the results. If it > looks like I want to do a replace all then I can go back into the dialog > and do that. The replace pattern would be blank if you want to remove the > iframe tags. > > If I need to be more discerning I'll work through each file by file in the > results using Find Next to make sure that I want to replace all the > iframes. Or refine the find pattern to be more specific. > > [fletcher] > > > On Oct 10, 2022, at 2:22 PM, a k <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey all, > > I'm looking to use grep to remove text contained within a tag (including > the tag itself). More specifically - I need to find and remove a bunch of > iframe tags from multiple .txt files. > > Here's an example tag: > > *<iframe > src="https://website.com/1.0/ifr?zid=123456&cb=${CACHEBUSTER}&abc_imp=${AUC_ID}&c=${CLICK_URL_ENC}&; > > <https://website.com/1.0/ifr?zid=123456&cb=$%7BCACHEBUSTER%7D&abc_imp=$%7BAUC_ID%7D&c=$%7BCLICK_URL_ENC%7D&;>" > > frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="123" height="456"></iframe>* > > because the zid, width and height always differ and appear in other places > in the document (that need to be preserved) I cant do a regular find and > replace. > > a complete beginner to BBEDIT and grep so apologies if this question is a > bit remedial. I have bunch of code cleanup tasks that are very repetitive > and I'm confident could be solved with grep, just not 100% sure how to go > about it. > > -- > 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/ba2bdebc-1e4e-4849-ad21-bfea60bd00e4n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/ba2bdebc-1e4e-4849-ad21-bfea60bd00e4n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- 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/14bb00e7-7ea5-4a3a-8a89-4255ccfa927bn%40googlegroups.com.
