Thanks for your help Patrick, Kerri, Lewis. Patrick thanks for the
detailed explanations of the process much appreciated.
Regards
> == 2 of 6 ==
> Date: Mon, Nov 24 2008 6:51 am
> From: Patrick James
>
>
> Hi
>
> I think BBEdit is ideal for this task.
>
> It is a matter for Find/Replace.
>
> If we think about this example:
>
> <img src="example.jpg" alt="Example" >
>
> <img src="example.jpg" alt="Example" >
>
> Then what we do is put this in the Find with Grep box checked:
>
> Find: alt=(".+?")
>
> Then put this in the replace: & title=\01
>
> And it will change the example to:
>
> <img src="example.jpg" alt="Example" title="Example" >
>
> A very brief explanation in Find:
>
> alt= is literal and so are the " and " (".+?")
>
> however . means anything except a return character
>
> and +? is quantifier for . meaning roughly, keep matching anything up
> until the following literal character which is ".
>
> The parentheses will capture that part of the expression and keep them
> ready to be put into the replace expression.
>
> In the replace we have:
>
> & which means replicate the whole of the found string.
>
> title= is literal as is the space preceding it.
>
> \01 will put in the bit of the find expression we captured with the
> parentheses.
>
> There is one important caveat which is that run over a file or files
> this expression will change all instances of alt="Example" it is not
> applied only to that string within the img tags. I can't at the moment
> think where a string like that might be in HTML other than in img tags
> but we could make sure that it only happens to the string in the img
> tag if we wished. For that I would use a loop in an AppleScript
> finding first: <img.+?> then in that selection perform the Find/
> Replace described above, then AppleScript loop would move us to the
> next instance of <img.+?> continuing until all is done.
>
> You will be able to open all the files on the server with BBEdit and
> then save them straight back to the server.
>
> For more info about Grep find/replace there is an excellent guide in
> the BBEdit Help.
>
> Best of luck :)
>
>
> Patrick
>
> http://www.patrickjames.co.uk
>
> > >
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> == 3 of 6 ==
> Date: Mon, Nov 24 2008 7:18 am
> From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
>
>
> Find:
> alt="([^"]+)"
>
> Replace:
> title="\1"
>
> Or
>
> Alt="\1" title="\1"
>
>
>
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