Searching for, marking and replace in one Line

Daniel Rafflenbeul

Hello here… I coud need your help.
I have the following line :
<A HREF=“./pdfs/pics/1400_Days.jpg” target=“_gnnnfigte”>Bild</A>
From this Line i would do the following :
Searching for “<A HREF=”./pdfs/pics/"
Marking the Text behind : (in every Line different) 1400_Days.jpg
Searchin for “Bild”
Replace Bild with :<img src="./pdfs/pics/THE-MARKED-TEXT"alt=“Bild” align=“middle” height=“80” width=“60”></A>

So that after all the complete Line looks like this :

How can i get this , repeating for over 100 Lines ???

regards Daniel

Ekopalypse

With the given data, one possible solution might be
find what:<A HREF="\./pdfs/pics/.*">\KBild
replace with:\<img src="\./pdfs/pics/1400_Days\.jpg" alt="Bild" align=middle height="80" width="60"\>
check Regular expression

Because of using the \K syntax it is needed to press replace all.

guy038

Hello, @daniel-rafflenbeul, @ekopalypse and All,

@ekopalypse, I don’t think the different backslash characters are necessary in the Replace zone !

However, as @daniel-rafflenbeul said

Marking the Text behind : (in every Line different) 1400_Days.jpg

I suppose that we have to catch every picture’s name !.

So, I propose the following regex S/R :

SEARCH (?-s)<A HREF="\./pdfs/pics/(.+?").+>\KBild

REPLACE <img src="./pdfs/pics/\1 alt="Bild" align="middle" height="80" width="60">

with the options Wrap around and Regular expression checked and a click on the Replace All button, exclusively

Best Regards,

guy038

Ekopalypse

@guy038

to be honest, I don’t know why I escaped < and >,
maybe because I’m currently working on this.

But for the special regex characters .[{}()\*+?|^$,
I always escape them if they are used literally, just to be sure.
Don’t know if this can bite me one day.

Alan Kilborn

@Ekopalypse said in Searching for, marking and replace in one Line:

maybe because I’m currently working on this.

+1 ! :-)

I always escape them if they are used literally, just to be sure.

or you could wrap them in \Q and \E, for a cleaner look as a side benefit!

Ekopalypse

@Alan-Kilborn

that’s really a nice one.
\Q…\E is much easier than parsing through the string :-D

Alan Kilborn

@Ekopalypse said in Searching for, marking and replace in one Line:

\Q…\E is much easier

and it is even easier if the regex string is intended to be all literal after a certain point. Just use \Q at that point an no “closing” \E is needed!

Example, find a minimal run of any characters followed by 3 literal *:

.*?\Q***