On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 04:39:34PM -0800, Steve Nicholson wrote:
> I need to replace a number of contiguous lines in the file I'm
> editing that begin with a specific word ('mash' in the example) with
> the contents of the clipboard.
> Aside from the contiguous block, there are no other lines in the file
> beginning with 'mash'.
>
> I can stumble my way around AppleScript but I'm not quite sure where
> to start. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This regex will find the block of lines all beginning with 'mash':
(^mash.*\r)+
For a simple approach, you could just use that in the Find dialog. I'll
have to leave the AppleScript to someone else. :)
Ronald
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