At 8:50 AM -0400 on 9/21/10, Gabriel Roth wrote:
Change your replacement pattern to:
h2nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;\1/h2
The \1 here means the first parenthetical sub-pattern in the
Find pattern.
I strongly suggest that you read Chapter 8 of the BBEdit
manual, which provides a very useful
Anyway, thanks for the grep tip. It works perfectly.
You're welcome. Glad it works.
The only thing that I had to do was escape the three ampersands in the
replacement string, as otherwise, I get undesirable results.
Ah yes. I, uh, deliberately left those in there as an educational exercise
Hello Everyone,
Patrick has already explained to me how to change text on the left and
right sides of a phrase, without changing the center phrase, when the
center phrase is a fixed string.
However, what if the center phrase is NOT a fixed string, but rather a
title of a book, for example, and
Change your replacement pattern to:
h2nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;\1/h2
The \1 here means the first parenthetical sub-pattern in the Find pattern.
I strongly suggest that you read Chapter 8 of the BBEdit manual, which
provides a very useful introduction to grep. The relevant section here is
'Writing
