Modifying Markdown files

[Mark Levison]

I'm trying to transform Markdown files (for Obsidian) from:

---

tags: Books

---


**Author**:: Stephen Tanner

**Title**:: Afghanistan

**Category**::History

**Status**:: 📥

to:

---

tags: Books


Author: Stephen Tanner

Title: Afghanistan

Category:History

Status: 📥

----

The basic stuff makes sense, the hard part is writing an if statement to remove the second '---' and insert a new one after status.

I wrote an if statement that starts:

Which I assume will delete the 2nd '----'. I can't seem to terminate the if. Is there an endIf I'm missing.

Also how would I add the new '---' after status?

Cheers

Mark

[Mark Munz]

First, The Endif is implied/invisible. Think of it like this:

If / Conditional action

    Action

    Action

    <endif>

Action

In actuality, it's implied when you're using TextSoap, but explicit when it's saved.

To get rid of the second line, I would use an action like this:

^ is anchored to the start of a line.

Then it captures ---\n , anything on the next line ending with a return.

Then it matches the second ---\n .

The result is text we captured, which is first two lines.

Next, to insert --- after Status, you might do something like this:

The example show a before and after with and without **, so I made it more general.

^ anchor from the start of the line

Capture the line that contains "Status" including its return

Replace with that, plus the ---\n you want.

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[Mark Levison]

Thanks for the rapid reply. Next mad question is there elegant (even inelegant) to grab the line ![cover|150]

And move it below the newly established "---\n". FWIW This isn't the end of the file, just end of a block.

Cheers

Mark