There's probably a more clever way to do this but this pattern works with multiple passes. Each Replace All will replace one space per link. Eventually it should have a pass where it doesn't replace anything.
Find: (?<=>)(.*?) (.*?)(?=</a>) Replace: \1\ \2 It uses a look behind and a look ahead assertion to find the text between > and </a> and then replaces the first space inside. [fletcher] > On Jun 26, 2024, at 9:24 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Longtime fan, first time caller. BBEdit's the best. > > I know my way around BBEdit grep searches pretty well, and yet I'm finding > myself stumped on what seems like it should be a pretty simple thing. > > I've got a bunch of lines that contain hyperlinks to song titles. In > simplified form, they look like this: > > <a href='index.html#All Day Long'>All Day Long</a> > <a href='index.html#Chosen Time'>Chosen Time</a> > <a href='index.html#Sooner Than You Think'>Sooner Than You Think</a> > > I chose these specific examples because they have a variable number of spaces > within the song names. What I want to do is replace the spaces in the > displayed text (that is, between the ">" and the "<") with " " but I > want to not do the same to the spaces within the href= portion of the <a tag. > > I can search with something like: > >.*?</a> > and that will match only the portion I want to change. > > Or if it helped, I could chunk the whole line into subpatterns, like: > ^(<a.*?)(#.*?>)(.*?)(</a>) > which would then put what I want to change in \3. > > But in either case, what would I put in the Replace field that would allow me > to replace only the spaces with something else (" " in this case)? Or, > is there some strategy for breaking it up into multiple finds that would get > the job done? I've really racked my brain for a while on this and I feel like > I must be staring at it but not seeing it. > > Thanks for any ideas! > > Ivan. > > > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature > request or believe that the application isn't working correctly, please email > "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Mastodon: > <https://mastodon.social/@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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/d47cdc83-c4c0-4b75-aef3-f7eaed42e442n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/d47cdc83-c4c0-4b75-aef3-f7eaed42e442n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or believe that the application isn't working correctly, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Mastodon: <https://mastodon.social/@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/117AAD9B-0FB0-4DA7-8FF6-578E8FDFE14E%40cumuli.com.
