My grateful thanks to those who have patiently tried to help, but I think we're over-complicating it. (My apologies once more). It occurred to me just now that what I'm looking for, is lines of text and digits (but not html) between <p> and the colon: Searching for *<p>(\w+):* works well if there are no digits - so how can I include text like 22nd, 1st, or even a number on its own (1234 for example?).
I try to make my posts clear, but equally, I don't want to bore people with excess detail. On Monday, 15 May 2023 at 07:45:43 UTC+1 Kaveh Bazargan wrote: > Ah, so no digit dependency at all, right? Does this work: > > Search: *<p>(.+?):(.+)</p>* > replace: *<p><strong>\1</strong>:\2</p>* > > On Sun, 14 May 2023 at 23:05, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> No Kaveh - Unfortunately Fletcher's reply doesn't help. >> I'll try to clarify. >> >> In this case, I want to make *bold* parts of some lines of text which >> begin with <p> up to where the bold part will end at a colon (:) Any text >> after the colon won't be bold. >> >> <p>*All this text will be bold, as until the first colon*: The text >> after the colon will be normal.</p> >> >> <p><strong>123</strong>Any lines which begin as this one does, will not >> be changed.</p> >> (The number being any combination of 1-3 digits). >> >> I hope that's more clear. Apologies for the lack of clarity. >> Andy >> >> On Sunday, 14 May 2023 at 20:11:38 UTC+1 Kaveh Bazargan wrote: >> >>> Sorry, still not clear for me. Does Fletcher's answer work? >>> >>> Are you saying there are specific numbers you do not want to match, say >>> <strong>135</strong> >>> but ones that you do want to match, say >>> <strong>137</strong> >>> ? >>> >>> Otherwise can you explain further? >>> >>> On Sun, 14 May 2023 at 18:09, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Yes, of course, Kaveh - thanks for your speedy reply - again! >>>> I got this the other day (you helped with it) to find a line of text >>>> (or text and numbers) which end with a colon and a space - >>>> <p>(.+?)\: >>>> It's brilliant, but there are occasions when I want to avoid a pattern >>>> such as <strong>123</strong>. The number varies, (from 1 to 999) and there >>>> may be other numbers, but I want to include those. In other words, avoid >>>> lines with numbers within the <strong></strong> tags. >>>> >>>> At other times, I want to avoid a certain word (or html). >>>> I hope that makes sense! >>>> Andy >>>> >>>> On Sunday, 14 May 2023 at 17:57:20 UTC+1 Kaveh Bazargan wrote: >>>> >>>>> can you give examples of strings you want to match and strings you >>>>> don't want to match? >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, 14 May 2023 at 17:29, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Something that I've been unable to find out is how to skip searching >>>>>> something which already contains a simple pattern: >>>>>> For instance, to find a number consisting 1-3 digits I use (\d{1,3}) >>>>>> - but how can I AVOID a number of up to 3 digits? >>>>>> Thanks in advance - >>>>>> 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. 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