Chris S, I tried your script, but nothing appears to happen. No changes.
I made mods to your code. I was not as clear as I should have been on
explanation desired results.
What I am working on is 50 chapters which are of the format:
#start#
1 xx
2 xxx
….
n xxx
#endofGen#
What I am
David,
I suspect Chris S. is correct and we’re using different OS versions and so
different versions of awk.
Looks like I sent you down a rabbit hole.
Definitely try his Perl script and let us know if it worked.
--Chris(topher)?
> On Jan 6, 2022, at 6:07 AM, David G Wagner wrote:
>
>
Thanks, Chris! I'll try that too! Love learning new tools!!PeterSent from my
Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
Original message From: Christopher Stone
Date: 1/6/22 6:12 AM (GMT-06:00) To: BBEdit-Talk
Subject: Re: Executing Multiple Saved Regular
Expressions On Jan 05,
Well, not sure what is going on. Here is the three chapters of data after I run
the corrected Text Filter. Before I executed your script, I executed Mormdliz
line endings to just make sure though I am only working on an Mac or related
Apple items.
I was going to send you the actual three
Hey Chris,
This fails on my Mojave system with the stock `awk`.
#Start#Start#Start#
2 In the beginning, God created the heavens and
Xxccx
#Start#EndOfGen#Start#
#Start#Start#Start#
6 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,
Xxxx
#Start#EndOfGen#Start#
#Start#Start#Start#
10 Now the
On Jan 05, 2022, at 14:15, David G Wagner wrote:
> I have data in one file and in one window. I could write a Perl script, but
> was wanting to handle within BBEdit via filter or ?
Hey David,
A Perl script can be employed as a text filter, and that's probably as simple
as anything.
On Jan 05, 2022, at 17:03, Peter Kaufman wrote:
> I have stored over 2 dozen regular expressions stored under the "g" in
> Find/Replace.
> I'd like to run 6 of them sequentially against a file. Is there a way to do
> this?
Hey Peter,
While Text Factories work well, I tend to use AppleScript
