On Oct 28, 2009, at 7:43 AM, William Reveal wrote:
> Just want to applaud Bill for this explanation. It may well help > Michael in his journey to grok grep. > > Bill Yes, I meant to chime in and thank him for the tutorial and I will refer to it before I whine for help again. But I did receive a direct reply from Kerri the night I posted and his suggestion/code > > If your data set is really as simple as this, and there are no other > pointy brackets in your data, just turn grep on and in the search box, > do > > <(.*?)> > > and replace with nothing. > > (This assumes that there are no line breaks within the HTML code...) worked perfectly. Some of the other suggested more elaborate code did not. So I am very thankful for the help offered by all. But I must say I really do think that this is a major hole in the BBEdit feature set. I have upgraded over the years primarily on principle (because I use BBEdit a lot) but other than the Textfactories I do not see very many added functions that I am making use of from about the 8.0 version onwards (I use maybe 7-10 of the menu commands). A Grep builder should be a feature in the next release since that is probably the function/capability that is most requested on this list. That would be a new very useful capability and (if I was BB sales manager) allow for pitching the product to people who are not coders but (like me) just need to shovel a lot of text around on an ongoing basis. Anyway, thanks for all the help. And if you ever get offered a data export from a company in Germany allow 2-3 times the effort to clean out the chaff ;-). M./ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
