GREP Help

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2001


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texte = We're having some fun with GREP in WebCat 4.X. Actually, when it works, it's really useful and a big timesaver. But we're having some problems with the following GREP statement. The idea is to take each line that ends with a : and change the style on that line only.[unurl][Grep search=(^[A-Z].*[%][3][A])&replace=\1][url][convertchars][FEAPICTTEXT1][/convert chars][/url][/Grep][/unurl]This is the sample text from the a field in the database that we're trying to modify:This is a New Feature: This text describes the features. Isn't it a fine set of features.This is Second Feature: This text describes the features. Isn't it a fine set of features.The grep statement is matching all text through the second :, and changing the style, which we don't want. In this application, the user enters a lot of text into one field of the database and we want to parse out the delimited elements.What we need is it to match the first line in each para that ends with a :.Any suggestions?BTW: anyone found a good GREP reference online? Especially syntax for the REPLACE actions?Richard Kirsner------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
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We're having some fun with GREP in WebCat 4.X. Actually, when it works, it's really useful and a big timesaver. But we're having some problems with the following GREP statement. The idea is to take each line that ends with a : and change the style on that line only.[unurl][Grep search=(^[A-Z].*[%][3][A])&replace=\1][url][convertchars][FEAPICTTEXT1][/convert chars][/url][/Grep][/unurl]This is the sample text from the a field in the database that we're trying to modify:This is a New Feature: This text describes the features. Isn't it a fine set of features.This is Second Feature: This text describes the features. Isn't it a fine set of features.The grep statement is matching all text through the second :, and changing the style, which we don't want. In this application, the user enters a lot of text into one field of the database and we want to parse out the delimited elements.What we need is it to match the first line in each para that ends with a :.Any suggestions?BTW: anyone found a good GREP reference online? Especially syntax for the REPLACE actions?Richard Kirsner------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Richard Kirsner

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