Minor comment: The search string
</span>(.+)\: will find the longest match as it is "greedy". I think you might need </span>(.+?)\: The "?" makes it non-greedy. Regards Kaveh On Wed, 10 May 2023 at 09:45, 'Holger Bartel' via BBEdit Talk < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Try the following Find pattern with Grep turned on: > > </span>(.+)\: > > with this Replace pattern: > > </span><strong>\1</strong>: > > Hope this helps, > Holger > > > > On 10. May 2023, at 10:32, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk < > [email protected]> wrote: > > I'm just beginning to gently feel my way into grep at last, but I'm > stumped here. > I want to isolate a string such as: > </span>The Cat that walked by himself: > I can't find how to include EVERY eventuality between </span> and the > colon at the end. > I simply want to make whatever is between </span> and the colon, *bold*. > So it would look like this: > </span><strong>The Cat that walked by himself</strong>: > Can you help please? > Andy > > -- > 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/dd5ddf44-0107-42a9-84a1-9019bfc79f43n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/dd5ddf44-0107-42a9-84a1-9019bfc79f43n%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/10720E34-F5BF-40CB-A809-FA75EF135599%40googlemail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/10720E34-F5BF-40CB-A809-FA75EF135599%40googlemail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kaveh Bazargan PhD Director River Valley Technologies <http://rivervalley.io> ● Twitter <https://twitter.com/rivervalley1000> ● LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/bazargankaveh/> ● ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1414-9098> ● @[email protected] <https://mastodon.social/@kaveh1000> *Accelerating the Communication of Research* * <https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bazargankaveh_ismte-innovation-award-recipient-kaveh-bazargan-activity-7039348552526921728-XAEB/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop> [image: https://rivervalley.io/gigabyte-wins-the-alpsp-scholarly-publishing-innovation-award-using-river-valleys-publishing-technology/] <https://rivervalley.io/gigabyte-wins-the-alpsp-scholarly-publishing-innovation-award-using-river-valleys-publishing-technology/>* -- 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/CAJ2R9pi%2Bmursb7j835U12iERD9aeJdpjDETNUf-8J-UwTZaAFA%40mail.gmail.com.
