How to select multiple text-blocks in BBEdit?

[Vlad Ghitulescu]

Hello!

I have a list like this:

—

Chapter 1

1.1 title_of_tutorial_1.1 - 2m 3s

1.2 title_of_tutorial_1.2 - 4m 53s

(…)

Chapter 2

2.1 title_of_tutorial_2.1 - 12m 31s

2.2 title_of_tutorial_2.2 - 5m 5s

(…)

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I would like to add to each of the lines with the tutorials (like "1.1 title_of_tutorial_1.1 - 2m 3s“ etc.) a „.m4v“ at the end.

I’ve found how to do this: I replace (with grep choosen) in the selected text a „$" with „.m4v“. 

So I begun selecting the text and applying this replace… and thinking if it is a possibility to make all of the selections at the beginning and only do the replace once at the end?

Thanks!

Regards,

Vlad

[Christopher Stone]

On Nov 23, 2014, at 06:56, Vlad Ghitulescu <Vl...@Ghitulescu.de> wrote:

I would like to add to each of the lines with the tutorials (like "1.1 title_of_tutorial_1.1 - 2m 3s“ etc.) a „.m4v“ at the end.

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So I begun selecting the text and applying this replace… and thinking if it is a possibility to make all of the selections at the beginning and only do the replace once at the end?

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Hey Vlad,

Any special reason you're selecting the text and not just doing a general find/replace?

Find:

(^[[:blank:]]*[\d.]+.+\d+m[[:blank:]]*\d+s)

Replace:

\1.md4

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Best Regards,

Chris

[Vlad Ghitulescu]

Hey, Chris!

Sorry, my fault: I forgot to tell that the „Chapter 1“ / „Chapter 2“ titles are almost similar to the tutorial-titles! 

They look like this:

1.0 Introduction - 8 lessons - 15m 23s

1.1 title_of_tutorial_1.1 - 2m 3s

1.2 title_of_tutorial_1.2 - 4m 53s

(…)

1.8 title_of_tutorial_1.8 - 2m 1s

2.0 Techniques - 12 lessons - 52m 24s 

2.1 title_of_tutorial_2.1 - 12m 31s

2.2 title_of_tutorial_2.2 - 5m 5s

(…)

2.12 title_of_tutorial_2.12 - 1m 1s

So yes, there is a reason! :-)

Regards,

Vlad

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[Christopher Stone]

On Nov 24, 2014, at 01:13, Vlad Ghitulescu <Vl...@Ghitulescu.de> wrote:

Sorry, my fault: I forgot to tell that the „Chapter 1“ / „Chapter 2“ titles are almost similar to the tutorial-titles!  They look like this:

1.0 Introduction - 8 lessons - 15m 23s

1.1 title_of_tutorial_1.1 - 2m 3s

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Hey Vlad,

That's not too hard to work with.

Assumes all chapters start with n…n.0:

Find:

^([[:blank:]]*\d+\.[1-9]\d*[\w[:blank:][:punct:]]+\d+m[[:blank:]]*\d+s)

Replace

\1.md4

Assumes only chapters contain the text 'n…n lessons':

Find:

^((?i)[[:blank:]]*\d+\.\d+(?>(?!\d+ lessons).)+\d+m[[:blank:]]*\d+s+$)

Replace

\1.md4

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Best Regards,

Chris

[Vlad Ghitulescu]

Hey, Chris!

Wow! Thanks!

I must learn to think like this - the regex is still not easy for me! :-/

But from the absence of the answers to my question I must conclude that I didn’t oversee any keystrokes / hidden menus and that there is actually no way to select two or more text-areas in a file with BBEdit, right?

Thanks again!

Regards,

Vlad

[Christopher Stone]

On Nov 25, 2014, at 00:20, Vlad Ghitulescu <Vl...@Ghitulescu.de> wrote:

I must learn to think like this - the regex is still not easy for me! :-/

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Hey Vlad,

RegEx is not easy for most people when they start, but it gets better.  :)

there is actually no way to select two or more text-areas in a file with BBEdit, right?

I didn't understand that you wanted to select all relevant (and discontinuous) text at once and then do one find/replace on the selection.

As far as I know BBEdit does not support discontinuous selections.

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Best Regards,

Chris