Replace the 1st (or 3rd) INSTANCE OF / on a line

no.cache · Post by **no.cache** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 6:32 pm

Hi guys. I'm trying to locate either the 1st Instance or the 3rd Instance of / on a line, and replace the character immediately following with a carrier return (\n).

2 EXAMPLES (both block left)

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www.1111.com/aaaaaaa.OOOOO.html
becomes
www.1111.com/(carrier return)
aaaaaaa.OOOOO.html

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http://www.2222.com/bbbbbbb.html
becomes
http://www.222.com/(carrier return)
bbbbbbb.html

Thanks everyone.

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 10:43 pm

Do you really want to find the last slash on the line?

Do you want to insert a newline sequence (either Windows style CR,LF (carriage return, line feed) or Unix style LF (line feed)), rather than a lone CR?

Do you want to insert a newline, as your examples (ignoring the typo) indicate, rather than replace anything with one.

If so, try this:

Find what: ^.*/
Replace with: \0\n

no.cache · Post by **no.cache** » Thu Jun 04, 2015 8:12 pm

Hi Ben and thank you once again.

I'm modifying my original request to search every FF Bookmark entry containing the line example:

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<DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1412102482" LAST_MODIFIED="1412181470">WikiBOOKS &amp; WikiPEDIA BOOKS</H3>

and insert a newline (\n) immediately after the first > that follows the word MODIFIED (for which there is only one instance per bookmark). The result should look like this when I look at it in Textpad:

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<DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1412102482" LAST_MODIFIED="1412181470">
WikiBOOKS &amp; WikiPEDIA BOOKS</H3>

I realize the output is illegal for HTML purists but this is for my own private use.

Thanks Ben.

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Thu Jun 04, 2015 10:11 pm

Find what: MODIFIED[^>]*>
Replace with: $0\n

no.cache · Post by **no.cache** » Thu Jun 04, 2015 10:53 pm

It doesn't work Ben. It strips out everything after LAST_ and replaces it with $0\n. It does however put that Title data on a new line.

no.cache · Post by **no.cache** » Thu Jun 04, 2015 10:59 pm

Put an easier way, I'm not deleting anything. I am merely inserting a \n (newline) at a position relative to the word MODIFIED.

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 9:02 am

It does work.

I see you are using a very old version of TextPad, whose regex support is very different from and very much weaker than the current version's. Much that can be done in the current version cannot be done in previous versions.

Try this:

Find what: MODIFIED[^>]*>
Replace with: \0\n

I cannot test this.

no.cache · Post by **no.cache** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 5:24 pm

ben_josephs wrote:I see you are using a very old version of TextPad, whose regex support is very different from and very much weaker than the current version's. Much that can be done in the current version cannot be done in previous versions. I cannot test this.

Ah. Ben, how stable is the latest version? I ask because when I attempted using a newer version many months ago it kept crashing.

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 7:29 pm

I'm running version 7.4.0 (the latest is 7.5.1). I use TextPad very heavily. I currently have 18 sessions running, with many documents open in each. I don't recall when it last crashed. I'm not sure it ever did.

Did my suggestion work?

no.cache · Post by **no.cache** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 9:47 pm

Okay Ben, I'll upgrade it to 7.4 but you're vacuuming my house if it crashes!! juuuuuust kidding