This works, thanks! I don't understand the syntax, but it works. Much 
appreciated.

On Wednesday, December 18, 2024 at 2:58:41 PM UTC-8 Rick Gordon wrote:

> What about:
>
> <a href="/posts/[^>]+/index\.html">
>
> Rick Gordon
> ------------------------------
> From: Greg Raven <[email protected]> 
> To: BBEdit Talk <[email protected]> 
> Date: Wed, Dec 18, 2024 10:03:23AM -0700 
> Subject: Grep non-greedy finding is not working for me in this instance 
>
> I use Grep in BBEdit a lot for cleaning up websites, but now there's a 
> situation where I'm missing something. 
>
> I'm redoing a site from WordPress to static, so there are a bunch of links 
> that look like:
>
> <a href="/posts/post-name/index.html">Post name</a>
>
> I need to change these so the link looks like:
>
> <a href="/posts/post-name.html">Post name</a>
>
> This seems as though it should be simple to find these instances with:
>
> <a href="/posts/.+?/index\.html">
>
> But if a paragraph contains:
>
> <a href="/posts/post-name/index.html">Post name</a>. <a 
> href="/search/index.html">Search here.</a>
>
> It glumps both links (and anything / everything in between) into one found 
> result.
>
> I sorta got it to work with this:
>
> <a href="/posts/[a-z].+?[a-z]/index\.html">
>
> But there has to be a more straightforward way. What am I missing?
>
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