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Niamh Doyle
Niamh Doyle

Reputation: 1949

How to use RegEx to replace a character in multiple text strings

My text is as below:

• heading 1\n» text_string: text_string\n» text_string: text_string\n• heading 2\n» text_string: text_string\n» text_string: text_string

I want to change \n» text_string: into \n» text_string\n - so the text should be displayed in my app as:

• heading 1
  » text_string
    - text_string
  » text_string
    - text_string
• heading 2
  » text_string
    - text_string
...

How can I use RegEx (Grep) to find \n» text_string: and replace it by \n» text_string\n -?

(I'm using TextWrangler).

Thank you very much.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 141

Answers (1)

MARP
MARP

Reputation: 581

if you want to change this:

• heading 1 » text_string: text_string » text_string: text_string • heading 2 » text_string: text_string » text_string: text_string

to this:

• heading 1 » text_string - text_string » text_string - text_string • heading 2 » text_string - text_string » text_string - text_string

I rather that you do something like this

text.replace(/:\stext_string(\n|$)/ig,"\n\t- text_string\n");

that is a normal regexp in javascript, I hope that help you somehow

Upvotes: 1

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