30-06-2005 21:56									#1
	Help! with regular expressions Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Okay, so the situation here is that I have about 2100 lines of code like this:

code:
(tr)
      (td colspan=2 height="84" class="body")Badgers!(/td)
    (/tr)

code:
(p)Badgers!(/p)

	01-07-2005 02:18									#2
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I take it you have the software needed to use them? Or is that what the problem is?

The following Perl one-liner ought to work, depending on how exact that description of the data really was. It won't work if the stuff between the tags stretches across multiple lines, for instance.

code:
perl -0pi'.bak' -e "s/<tr>\n\s*<td.*?>(.*)<\/td>\n\s*<\/tr>/<p>$1<\/p>/gi;" filename

	01-07-2005 02:33									#3
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Add some mushrooms and a snake, and you'll be fine.

	01-07-2005 02:51									#4
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Thanks, I'll see if I can't fudge that into working.

I'm using a text editor that accepts regular expressions for searches, find & replace. But I'm willing to run the file through whatever to lessen my workload

	01-07-2005 05:44									#5
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As long as it properly supports regular expressions, that text editor should work. Just use the two parts of the regular expressions

	01-07-2005 08:50									#6
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You may be over-engineering this.

You can just replace (tr) with nothing, (/tr) with nothing, (td colspan=2 height="84" class="body") with (p), and (/td) with (/p).

	01-07-2005 08:54									#7
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I thought of that solution too but the problem is there are other (td)s that need to be marked up as (/address)

	01-07-2005 09:35									#8
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I would look for something like:

quote: bol, followed by zero or more white spaces, followed by <tr>, followed by zero or more white spaces and then eol, then bol, zero or more white spaces, <td colspan=2 height="84" class="body"><Badgers!</td>, zero or more white spaces, eol, bol, zero or more white spaces, </tr>,zero or more white spaces, eol

I may have missed a number of "zero or more white spaces" somewhere.

	01-07-2005 09:57									#9
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quote: Help! with regular expressions

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