My grateful thanks to *Holger Bartel* and *Kaveh Bazargan* for their swift responses! Yes, the question mark makes a huge difference! This is a big step forward for me and grep - I could quite easily get crazed with power (but I won't). Thanks again for your help!
On Wednesday, 10 May 2023 at 09:45:36 UTC+1 Holger Bartel 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/731d6f2e-aa9c-4a32-97b3-33bc09a27875n%40googlegroups.com.
