I don't know if this is robust enough for you. the gist is identify some text with a regular expression, and replace that text with something else. I use re-builder to help create the regexps.
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (let ((s " <div class=\"csl-entry\">Broder, John M., and Ian Urbina. “All Eyes Turn to Virginia Senate Race.” <i>The New York Times</i>, November 9, 2006, sec. /. <a href=\"http:hostname/url.\">http://hostname/url.</a></div>")) (setq s (replace-regexp-in-string "\\(\.\\)\"" "" s nil nil 1)) (setq s (replace-regexp-in-string "\\(\.\\)</a>" "" s nil nil 1))) #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: : <div class"csl-entr">Broder, John M., and Ian Urbina. “All Eyes Turn to Virginia Senate Race.” <i>The New York Times</i>, November 9, 2006, sec. /. <a href"http:hostname/url">http://hostname/url</a></div> John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Matt Price <mopto...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm sorry to come with a basic elisp question, once again. > > I continue to work on this citation stuff. Currently, I can get html back > from Zotero in a form like this: > > ----------------- > <div class="csl-entry">Broder, John M., and Ian Urbina. “All Eyes Turn > to Virginia Senate Race.” <i>The New York Times</i>, November 9, 2006, sec. > /. <a href="http://hostname/url.";>http://hostname/url.</a></div> > ----------------- > > Note the final "." in the href -- this is a bug in the citeproc-js > citation engine (I think). > > So, I would like to do some postprocessing and just remove the final ".". > But it's not obvious to me how to do that. I feel like it should be! And > that for an editor, emacs makes it awfully hard to match patterns & edit > strings. But I think that's partly because I simply understand lisp so > poorly. > > If someone could show me how to do this, nad somehow along hte way make me > understand hte basic principles involved so I can start to teach myself > better... well, I would appreciate it. > > thanks again, > Matt >
