The search term <a href="/posts/[^>]+/index\.html">
only has two regular expressions (grep): (1) "[^>]+" which translates to "one or more characters that are not >" and (2) "\." which translates to the period character. (Because it has a special meaning in grep, when all we want to do is search for a period, the "\" is required to "escape" the special meaning.) On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 5:34 AM Greg Raven <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >> >> -- >> This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature >> request or believe that the application isn't working correctly, please >> email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on >> Mastodon: <https://mastodon.social/@bbedit> >> - >> >> _______________________________________ >> RICK GORDON >> _______________________________________ >> EMAIL: [email protected] >> WWW: www.shelterpub.com >> ------------------------------ >> > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature > request or believe that the application isn't working correctly, please > email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on > Mastodon: <https://mastodon.social/@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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/0c965ddc-0a84-46b7-8fb1-d919c267c045n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/0c965ddc-0a84-46b7-8fb1-d919c267c045n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Mark Bowron 1650 S CASINO DR #2202 LAUGHLIN, NV USA 89029-1512 +1 224-357-6070 -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or believe that the application isn't working correctly, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Mastodon: <https://mastodon.social/@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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/CACihOAvXPEW4ez_gP%2B7nnxxOc6Zkufg7mF9FVt6udji85WhyoQ%40mail.gmail.com.
