Here’s a slightly amended version of your script:
tell application “BBEdit”
tell front text window
replace "/\\*([^+]*?)\\*/" using "<!--\\1-->" options ¬
{search mode:grep, case sensitive:false, starting at top:true}
end tell
end tell
The differences are:
- no parentheses () surrounding the whole find pattern because that becomes the
first capture, which you use in the replacement pattern as ‘\1’.
- added parens around the inner part of the find pattern, in order to capture
what’s between the JS comment markers.
- if you needed to keep that outer parens capture for some other reason, then
change the replacement pattern to “<!—\\2—>” (assuming that part stays the
second parens-capture).
- I omitted the replace “%@“ line to keep this part of the script clear.
Using the script as I wrote it above
/* some commented stuff */ /*some more*/
And /* some more*/
is transformed in one step into
<!-- some commented stuff --> <!--some more-->
And <!-- some more-->
HTH
— Bruce
_bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_
> On Mar 17, 2023, at 3:04 AM, Mathias <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> OK, so I'm working on an apple script to replace Localizable (apple) comments
> on the /* ... */ format to <!-- and -->
>
> I got it working, but I'm using two commands because I couldn't figure the
> grep out... can this be simplified with only one "replace" ?
>
> pointers appreciated, script here:
>
> tell application "BBEdit"
> tell front text window
> replace "(/\\*[^\\*]*\\*/)" using "<!--\\1-->" options ¬
> {search mode:grep, case sensitive:false, starting at top:true}
> replace "(/\\*|\\*/)" using "" options {search mode:grep, case
> sensitive:false, starting at top:true}
> replace "%@" using "%1$s" options {case sensitive:false, starting at
> top:true}
>
> end tell
> end tell
>
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