On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:10:04PM +0800, Kai Hendry wrote:
> Thanks Nick for sharing that Makefile.
> I've decided to use the first HTML comment in the markdown
> as the page title.
Why not make it the same as the main heading?
or use the first line of the markdown?
or use the file name / folder name (for index), somehow filtered?
> If you can suggest something that sucks less than:
> grep -m1 -oP '(?<=<!-- ).*?(?= -->)' # i'd be grateful ;)
Well I kind of misconstrued this as looking for the first HTML comment
in HTML, but it's much the same idea I guess:
html_comments | head -n1
then you have to write html_comments, which you already did I guess. I'd
probably use real perl...
perl -nE 'say "$1" while /<!--\s*(.*?)\s*-->/g'
or other tools with simpler regexps:
html_split | grep '^<!--' | sed 's/<!-- *//; s/ *-->$//'
or all in sed, assuming sane html:
html_split | sed 's/<!-- *//; s/ *-->$//p'
that 'grep' might be better written:
starts_with '<!--'
and the sed:
trim '<!--' '-->' | trim_space
I want to critique head(1) and tail(1), but I'm getting carried away. ;)
YMMV as to whether making lots of little tools you might never use again
sucks more or less than one somewhat opaque invocation of grep!
