Thanks, Jonathan. I had completely overlooked that (?s), struggling with strings of \s and \r.
Paul On Nov 12, 2:55 pm, Jonathan Lundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 12, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Paul wrote: > > > Two full days of experimenting, reading, expermenting, researching, > > experimenting and I can't figure out how to get this done. > > > I want to find and replace blocks like the following, using the > > <div ... /div> tags as delimiters. The problem seems to be that the > > number of paragraphs varies. > > We're probably going to need a little more information, specifically > on what criteria you want to match. If you want to match any div of > the class shown here (and it's always typed the same way), something > like this should do the trick: > > (?s)(<div class="ve mid-108">.*?</div>) > > The tricks here are that (?s) causes '.' to match newlines, and > that .*? is a non-greedy match, so that it will terminate on the first > </div> that it finds (so it won't work with nested div's). The class > match can of course be more general than what I've shown, but you need > to be careful with greed. > > > > > <div class="ve mid-108"> > > <p> > > You have used the attribute named above in your document, but > > the > > document type you are using does not support that attribute for > > this > > element. This error is often caused by incorrect use of the > > "Strict" > > document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must > > use > > the "Transitional" document type to get the "target" attribute), > > or > > by using vendor proprietary extensions such as > > "marginheight" (this > > is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect > > instead). > > </p> > > <p> > > This error may also result if the element itself is not > > supported in > > the document type you are using, as an undefined element will > > have no > > supported attributes; in this case, see the element-undefined > > error > > message for further information. > > </p> > > <p> > > How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and > > attribute, > > (Remember XHTML is all lower-case) and/or > > check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, > > and/or > > use CSS instead of this attribute. If you received this error > > when using the > > <embed> element to incorporate flash media in a Web page, > > see the > > <a href="http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#faq-flash";>FAQ > > item on valid flash</a>. > > </p> > > </div> > > > I expect that if somebody provides the solution I'll be slapping my > > forehead and going "Duh," but I'm stuck. Any generous souls out there? > > > Paul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" rather than posting to the group. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
