How do I replace only the first <br> tag across multiple files?

[Scott Nielson]

@guy038 Terrific! You are great! I was sensible enough to figure out that by, “sensible to case” you mean, “case sensitive” and by, “The $0 syntax represents the overall match, so the string <br>, with this exact case” you mean, “The $0 syntax represents the overall match, which is the string <br>, with this exact case”. You must be French. Merci beaucoup for your help! I learnt French some 30 years ago but je ne peux pas parler beaucoup de français simply because I seldom bumped into French speaking people later.

[Scott Nielson]

@Terry-R No problem!

[Scott Nielson]

@PeterJones
@Scott-Nielson said in How do I replace only the first <br> tag across multiple files?:

@Alan-Kilborn or anyone else. I am doing Edit->Line Operations->Reverse line order, then in the RegEx mode,
Find: ^[^/]+\K<br> to find the last (which is actually the first since the lines are reversed) <br> tag in each section and Replace: <br>zxcvb,
Then Find: (?s)(?<=color:black'>)-(.*?) *(?=zxcvb) and Replace: qwerty$1xxx where qwerty and xxx are some HTML codes I wanna add but is there a RegEx that can help me do the needful without the Edit->Line Operations->Reverse line order (to find the first <br> tag in each section)?

By the above, you should have figured out that I do try to figure out how to do these things. I seek a solution here only if I am unable to figure out what to do and will continue to do so - I ain't too proud to beg. I thank you for the RegEx that helped me find the very first <br> tag - (?s)\A.*?\K<br>
Thanks again!

[Scott Nielson]

@PeterJones If you give me a link to check out something or give me a hint, I do check it out but luckily, @guy038 gave me the right solution (spoon feeding as you call it)!

[guy038]

Hi, @scott-nielson and All,

A bit off-topic : Yeah, it’s a common mistake when doing translations ! In French, this kind of words are known as “faux amis” words ! Just because :

• In English, the adjective sensible have the French sense of raisonnable / sensé or pratique

• In French the adjective sensible have the English sense of sensitive or noticable

So, I should have used the expression sensitive to case !

Cheers,

guy038