Re: Can this be done without writing a script? (matching and replacing)

2019-07-18 Thread Christopher Stone
On 07/17/2019, at 12:49, Mark C. mailto:cran...@gmail.com>> wrote: > I'm fine tuning some Dokuwiki markdown … Hey Mark, Is it likely that you'll have more than one reference per page? If so then you'll really need a scripted solution. If not then Roland's regex might work for you. -- Best

Re: Can this be done without writing a script? (matching and replacing)

2019-07-17 Thread Roland Küffner
Hi Mark, first answer: yes, coding a script would be the natural solution. But. If you make a lot of assumptions, something like this would work: search: (?s)\[(\d+)\](.+)\1(.+?)\\+ replace: ((\3)) \2 breakdown: (?s) = let the dot include line breaks \[(\d+)\] = search for a number in brackets

Can this be done without writing a script? (matching and replacing)

2019-07-17 Thread Mark C.
Hi, I'm fine tuning some Dokuwiki markdown. In the body of the text there are references to footnotes that look like this: Blah blah blah [12] And at the end of the document there's a footnote that looks like this: 12 Crassus and Antonius.\\ That's all fine and it works, but it would be even