It is going to depend on exactly the patterns you want to match and the
format of the changed result. Assuming the first subtitle block's subtitle
text is a single line of text and the following subtitle block's subtitle
text is a single word of all-lower-case characters (assuming that's what
you want from your previous "Grep pattern needed" posting) followed by
optional period punctuation mark, the following grep pattern will find that
pattern and capture group parts for reassembly into the desired result:
^(\d+\s+\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2},\d{3} -->
)(\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2},\d{3}\s+)(.+)(\s+\d+\s+\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2},\d{3} -->
)(\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2},\d{3}\s+)((?-i)^[a-z]+[.]?[\W]*)$
The question is then what to you want the result to look like?
1) Just move the word from subtitle block 51 to the end of subtitle block
50's subtitle text and leave everything else the same?
The replace pattern:
\1\2\3 \6\4\5
will produce as a result:
50
00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:42,840
However, what can happen is this can come at the cost of disregarding the
larger whole.
51
00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:43,000
2) Change subtitle block 50's timecode end time to subtitle block 51's
timecode end time along with moving subtitle block 51's single word
subtitle text and completely remove what remains of the subtitle block 51
entry?
The replace pattern:
\1\2\3 \6
will produce as a result:
50
00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:42,840
However, what can happen is this can come at the cost of disregarding the
larger whole.
3) If you chose 2), the subtitle sequence numbers for the remaining
subtitle blocks will no longer be sequential. Fixing the remaining subtitle
blocks' subtitle sequence numbers so they are sequential can't be done
using just grep find and replace patterns. You're going to need something
beyond grep like a script to accomplish that and you might as well put all
the finding and replacing in that script solution also to keep all the
manipulation mechanics in one tidy package.
On Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 7:41:57 AM UTC-7 Otto Munters wrote:
> Example of a subtitle from which I want to move the single word in the
> second timestamp to the end of the subtitle in the first timestamp.
> Is it possible to do that with a regex in BBedit? With Python or
> Applescript, I can't work.
>
> 50
> 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:42,840
> However, what can happen is this can come at the cost of disregarding the
> larger
>
> 51
> 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:43,000
> whole.
>
>
> Thank you for helping me!
> Otto
>
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