On 06/29/2024 12:17 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 06:37:23AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...]
When searching for information on regular expressions I came across one that
did it by searching for
{"1 thru 9" OR "10 thru 99" OR "100 thru 999"} .
I lost the reference ;
On 2024-06-30 14:21, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 12:32:15 +0100, mick.crane wrote:
got it thanks.
I don't know what you're trying to do, but ERE [0-7]{1,2} matches one-
or two-digit *octal* numbers (e.g. 5, 07, 72, 77) but not numbers that
contains the digits 8 or 9.
D
Hello,
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 09:21:57AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Do you have a book whose verses are enumerated in octal?
No one clarified that this was the *Christian* Bible. 😀
Thanks,
Andy
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 12:32:15 +0100, mick.crane wrote:
> got it thanks.
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I don't know what you're trying to do, but ERE [0-7]{1,2} matches one-
or two-digit *octal* numbers (e.g. 5, 07, 72, 77) but not numbers that
contains the digits 8 or 9.
Do you have a book whose verses
On 2024-06-29 20:29, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 20:18:02 +0100, mick.crane wrote:
Oh, I see what the question was.
There is "use regular expressions", "use multi line matching" in Geany
I'm not very good at regular expressions.
I'd probably do it 3 times
"search for"
"search f
On 2024-06-29 20:29, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 20:18:02 +0100, mick.crane wrote:
Oh, I see what the question was.
There is "use regular expressions", "use multi line matching" in Geany
I'm not very good at regular expressions.
I'd probably do it 3 times
"search for"
"search f
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 20:18:02 +0100, mick.crane wrote:
> Oh, I see what the question was.
> There is "use regular expressions", "use multi line matching" in Geany
> I'm not very good at regular expressions.
> I'd probably do it 3 times
> "search for"
> "search for"
> "search for"
There's mor
On 2024-06-29 16:09, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 29/06/2024 20:07, mick.crane wrote:
On 2024-06-29 12:34, Max Nikulin wrote:
To manipulate with HTML it is better to write a script in some
programming language, e.g. for python there are lxml etree and
BeautifulSoup packages. This way it is easier to m
On Sat 29 Jun 2024 at 17:08:04 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2024-06-28 20:53:50 +, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> > Yes, it almost certainly can be done with a single sed (or other
> > similar tool) invocation where the regular expression matches
> > precisely what you want it to match. But
On 2024-06-29, wrote:
>
>> Owlett is a notorious troll who never listens to reason.
>
> This is wrong, borderline defamatory. Richard Owlett is not a
Andy Smith:
It's not an authentic Owlett thread unless it contains an enormous
XY problem, a monomaniacal obsession with a solution already
pa
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 06:37:23AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...]
> When searching for information on regular expressions I came across one that
> did it by searching for
>{"1 thru 9" OR "10 thru 99" OR "100 thru 999"} .
> I lost the reference ;<
That would be something like ([0-9]|[1-9]
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 04:02:56PM -, Curt wrote:
> On 2024-06-29, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> >>
> >> HUH ??
> >
> > ..._focus on the goal_.
> >
>
>
> Owlett is a notorious troll who never listens to reason.
This is wrong, borderline defamatory. Richard Owlett is not a
troll [1]. He
Hi,
> > So you may prefer to use regexes as
> > Murphy intended, handling both the opening and closing tags at the same
> > time, leaving the intervening text intact.
>
> In this particular case I suspect it would become overly complex.
> I've already discovered that the order of edits is importan
On 2024-06-29, Michael Kjörling wrote:
>>
>> HUH ??
>
> ..._focus on the goal_.
>
Owlett is a notorious troll who never listens to reason.
But you people adore this kind of troll, inexplicably, perhaps because
he allows you to expand endlessly on your reams of essentially useless
knowl
On 29/06/2024 20:07, mick.crane wrote:
On 2024-06-29 12:34, Max Nikulin wrote:
To manipulate with HTML it is better to write a script in some
programming language, e.g. for python there are lxml etree and
BeautifulSoup packages. This way it is easier to maintain valid
document structure with pai
On 2024-06-28 20:53:50 +, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> Yes, it almost certainly can be done with a single sed (or other
> similar tool) invocation where the regular expression matches
> precisely what you want it to match. But unless this is something you
> will do very often, I tend to prefer rea
Hello,
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 01:46:27PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> On 29 Jun 2024 06:12 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett):
> >> there may be other closing tags you don't want to
> >> change because they close other tags we haven't seen.
> >
> > Chuckle ;} The appropriate "
On 29 Jun 2024 05:51 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett):
>> Ignoring the question about Emacs
>
> Emacs *CAN NOT* be ignored.
I did not say to ignore _Emacs_. I said that I was ignoring the
_question_ about Emacs, to instead...
>> and focusing on the goal (your
^^
On 29 Jun 2024 06:12 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett):
>>> $ for v in $(seq 1 119); do sed -i 's,>> id="V'$v'">,,g' ./*.html; done
>>
>> Having done that (or similar), don't forget to change the relevant
>> closing tags to closing tags. However, there may be
>> other closing tags
On 2024-06-29 12:34, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 29/06/2024 11:48, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
Do M-x (hold Meta, most of the time your Alt key, then "x").
You get a command for a prompt. Enter "query-replace-regexp"
And to get help for this function
C-h f query-replace-regexp RET
To open user m
On 06/29/2024 06:51 AM, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
On 06/28/2024 03:53 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote:
On 28 Jun 2024 14:04 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard
Owlett):
I need to replace ANY occurrence of
thru [at most]
by
I'm reforma
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 07:43:47 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> The option "g" means that said should do this multiple times if
> it occurs in the same file (globally, like grep) instead of the
> default behavior which is to find the first match and just
> change that.
The g option in sed's s command
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 21:23:03 -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:53:50 +
> Michael Kjörling wrote:
>
> > $ for v in $(seq 1 119); do sed -i 's, > id="V'$v'">,,g' ./*.html; done
> >
> > Be sure to have a copy in case something goes wrong; and diff(1) a few
> > files afte
Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 06/28/2024 03:53 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> > On 28 Jun 2024 14:04 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett):
> > > I need to replace ANY occurrence of
> > >
> > >thru [at most]
> > >
> > > by
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm reformatting a Bible
Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 06/28/2024 03:53 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> > On 28 Jun 2024 14:04 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard
> > Owlett):
> >> I need to replace ANY occurrence of
> >>
> >>thru [at most]
> >>
> >> by
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm reformatting a Bible st
On 06/28/2024 11:48 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
Pluma is my editor of choice.
*BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving regular
expressions.
I would be *very* surprised if an editor, these days and age
can't
On 29/06/2024 11:48, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
Do M-x (hold Meta, most of the time your Alt key, then "x").
You get a command for a prompt. Enter "query-replace-regexp"
And to get help for this function
C-h f query-replace-regexp RET
To open user manual switch to the help buffer and press
On 06/28/2024 10:23 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:53:50 +
Michael Kjörling wrote:
$ for v in $(seq 1 119); do sed -i 's,,,g' ./*.html; done
Be sure to have a copy in case something goes wrong; and diff(1) a few
files afterwards to make sure that the result is as you int
On 06/28/2024 03:53 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote:
On 28 Jun 2024 14:04 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett):
I need to replace ANY occurrence of
thru [at most]
by
I'm reformatting a Bible stored in HTML format for a particular set of
vision impaired seniors (my
On 06/28/2024 02:33 PM, Van Snyder wrote:
On Fri, 2024-06-28 at 14:04 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
Pluma is my editor of choice.
*BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving
regular
expressions.
Emacs can. It has much verbose documentation.
But examples seem rather scarce.
On 06/28/2024 02:17 PM, didier gaumet wrote:
Le 28/06/2024 à 21:04, Richard Owlett a écrit :
Pluma is my editor of choice.
*BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving
regular expressions.
[...]
Hello Richard,
According to the Mate wiki, Pluma handles regular expressions t
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 09:17:14PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote:
> Le 28/06/2024 à 21:04, Richard Owlett a écrit :
> > Pluma is my editor of choice.
> > *BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving regular
> > expressions.
> [...]
>
> Hello Richard,
>
> According to the Mate wiki
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Pluma is my editor of choice.
> *BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving regular
> expressions.
I would be *very* surprised if an editor, these days and age
can't do regular expressions. Really.
> Emacs can.
On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:53:50 +
Michael Kjörling wrote:
> $ for v in $(seq 1 119); do sed -i 's, id="V'$v'">,,g' ./*.html; done
>
> Be sure to have a copy in case something goes wrong; and diff(1) a few
> files afterwards to make sure that the result is as you intended.
Having done that (or
On 28 Jun 2024 14:04 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett):
> I need to replace ANY occurrence of
>
> thru [at most]
>
> by
>
>
> I'm reformatting a Bible stored in HTML format for a particular set of
> vision impaired seniors (myself included). Each chapter is in it
On Fri, 2024-06-28 at 14:04 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Pluma is my editor of choice.
> *BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving
> regular
> expressions.
>
> Emacs can. It has much verbose documentation.
> But examples seem rather scarce.
nedit can handle regular expres
Le 28/06/2024 à 21:04, Richard Owlett a écrit :
Pluma is my editor of choice.
*BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving regular
expressions.
[...]
Hello Richard,
According to the Mate wiki, Pluma handles regular expressions the Perl way:
https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/mat
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