Mark - Wow, I will test it out tomorrow to see how far I can take it.
I hope it works for multi-line tags My interest would be also the option to return <li>line 3</li> <li>line 2</li> <li>line 1</li> or line 3 line 2 <https://tiddlywiki.com/#line%202> line 1 <https://tiddlywiki.com/#line%201> Because keeping the valid tags can be made use of as well. Ahd also see how to handle If the list tag had a style eg <li style="something"> it would be nice if we could return <li style="something">line 1</li> or line 1 If so a lot can be done to extract useful content from html, even if just to summarise some content. Perhaps further resolution would help like <section name=extract>content</section> Or extract list items. Even without using html a tiddlers text field could use html block and inline elements https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_blocks.asp to structure the content, and with such a regex macro extract parts of the tiddler text such as say a prepared extract from the content, or an excerpt, or a config settings or more. Regards Tony On Friday, August 23, 2019 at 12:22:47 AM UTC+10, Mark S. wrote: > > > There's that saying, "When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to > look like a nail." > > All we have is regex. It would be great to have some other tool for > extracting actual DOM-like structures the way you > could with TW classic. But we don't have it. > > Actually, the tool we have for regexp is also a bit lacking. There's no > tool for directly lifting desired target text. The new splitregexp only > splits, it doesn't > return the text we want to find. Here's my version that does most > literally what you ask for > > <$vars realchars="[^\s]+"> > <$list filter="[{test}splitregexp[\n]join[ ]splitregexp[<li> > ]butfirst[1]splitregexp[</li>]butlast[1]regexp<realchars>]"> > > </$list> > </$vars> > > Input: > > More text here > <li>line 3</li> > <li>line 2</li> > <li>line 1</li> > More text there > > Output > > > line 3 <https://tiddlywiki.com/#line%203> > line 2 <https://tiddlywiki.com/#line%202> > line 1 <https://tiddlywiki.com/#line%201> > > > > Good luck! > > On Thursday, August 22, 2019 at 2:21:34 AM UTC-7, TonyM wrote: >> >> Jeremy, >> >> You are aware I do not want so much to parse it as locate the content >> between matching tags. >> >> Its intention is to access content delimited by html tags inside the text >> content. >> >> Perhaps we could use it to retrieve items between the section div tags or >> all instances of text between the li tags. >> >> Regards >> Tony >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/69ec934d-1330-4961-9758-e2ce91c80e60%40googlegroups.com.
