POSIX seems not to be working...

[SergeantRock]

Hi.

POSIX seems to be acting up in TxtP. Alternatively, I could be making a mistake with my syntax...

Here's my XHTML:

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<li><a href="">shell_IE5.css</a></li>

I want to grab the first part of the filename inside the tags (before the extension) and repeat it in the href, like so:

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<li><a href="shell_IE5">shell_IE5.css</a></li>

My RegExp is:

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Find: ""\(>[^\.]+\)

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Replace: "\1"\1

I'm getting a 'Cannot find Regular Expression:'

Any ideas?

[ben_josephs]

That's non-Posix syntax (and your handling of the > isn't quite right). You need

Find what: "">([^.]+)
Replace with: "\1">\1

[X] Regular expression

(You don't need to quote the dot in the character class, which is itself a quoting operator.)

[SergeantRock]

Thank you very much! Now I'm confused as to what's POSIX and what ain't...
But cheers for the help!

[Bob Hansen]

Search for:

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(.*=")(">)(.*)\.

Replace with:

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\1\3\2\3\.

This:

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<li><a href="">shell_IE5.css</a></li>

Becomes this:

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<li><a href="shell_IE5">shell_IE5.css</a></li>

[ben_josephs]

Search for:

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(.*=")(">)(.*)\.

But beware of the longest-match rule. Consider what happens if there are two matching <a> elements on one line, or, indeed, just one of them, with a dot somewhere to the right of it...

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(=")(">)([^.<]*)\.

is safer.