> On May 15, 2023, at 3:13 AM, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thank you once again, Kaveh - that works perfectly!
> Best wishes,
Yay!
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examples of the specific text you're dealing with, plus any comments needed to
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> On May 15, 2023, at 3:13 AM, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thank you once again, Kaveh - that works perfectly!
> Best wishes,
> Andy
>
> On Monday, 15 May 2023 at 09:49:21 UTC+1 Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
> Try this one. It matches any characters before colon, but not <>
>
> On Mon, 15 May 2023 at 09:41, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Kaveh,
> Look at this another way...
> I want to search within <p> and the colon:
>
> If I use .+? it picks up everything, including stuff I don't want.
> Using <p>(\w+): works brilliantly as long as there are no numbers or digits
> in the line of text - but I want to include these.
>
> So how can I search for words or numbers etc but no left or right arrows in
> the result such as < or >?
> (I WOULD also like to include punctuation, such as exclamation and question
> marks, brackets, etc, - if I can).
> Thanks - Andy
> On Monday, 15 May 2023 at 09:22:25 UTC+1 Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
> Hi Andy
>
> I suggest you give several examples of what should be picked up and made
> bold, and several of what should not be. Still not clear for me. ;-)
>
> On Mon, 15 May 2023 at 09:19, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
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