Minor comment: The search string
</span>(.+)\: will find the longest match as it is "greedy". I think you might need </span>(.+?)\: The "?" makes it non-greedy. Regards Kaveh On Wed, 10 May 2023 at 09:45, 'Holger Bartel' via BBEdit Talk < bbedit@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Try the following Find pattern with Grep turned on: > > </span>(.+)\: > > with this Replace pattern: > > </span><strong>\1</strong>: > > Hope this helps, > Holger > > > > On 10. May 2023, at 10:32, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk < > bbedit@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > I'm just beginning to gently feel my way into grep at last, but I'm > stumped here. > I want to isolate a string such as: > </span>The Cat that walked by himself: > I can't find how to include EVERY eventuality between </span> and the > colon at the end. > I simply want to make whatever is between </span> and the colon, *bold*. > So it would look like this: > </span><strong>The Cat that walked by himself</strong>: > Can you help please? > Andy > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature > request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com" > rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: < > https://twitter.com/bbedit> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/dd5ddf44-0107-42a9-84a1-9019bfc79f43n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/dd5ddf44-0107-42a9-84a1-9019bfc79f43n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature > request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com" > rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: < > https://twitter.com/bbedit> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/10720E34-F5BF-40CB-A809-FA75EF135599%40googlemail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/10720E34-F5BF-40CB-A809-FA75EF135599%40googlemail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kaveh Bazargan PhD Director River Valley Technologies <http://rivervalley.io> ● Twitter <https://twitter.com/rivervalley1000> ● LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/bazargankaveh/> ● ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1414-9098> ● @kaveh1000@mastodon.social <https://mastodon.social/@kaveh1000> *Accelerating the Communication of Research* * <https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bazargankaveh_ismte-innovation-award-recipient-kaveh-bazargan-activity-7039348552526921728-XAEB/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop> [image: https://rivervalley.io/gigabyte-wins-the-alpsp-scholarly-publishing-innovation-award-using-river-valleys-publishing-technology/] <https://rivervalley.io/gigabyte-wins-the-alpsp-scholarly-publishing-innovation-award-using-river-valleys-publishing-technology/>* -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/CAJ2R9pi%2Bmursb7j835U12iERD9aeJdpjDETNUf-8J-UwTZaAFA%40mail.gmail.com.
