Grep-Find and Replace text inside <title> tag followed by change case

[Alex Santos]

Hello

I have a long XML file with a boat load of <title></title> tags and the text within is in all uppercase.

I am trying to formulate a grep string to find and replace all text inside the <title> tag to Sentence Case or Upper Case for first letter only.

This is what I managed. Please be gentle with me as this is the first time I am even attempting to use grep. So far it selects the entire <title>*</title> line but when I try replace nothing really happens.

Find: \<title>([\w\s]+)</title>

Replace: \<title>\1\E\L\</title>

I included a screenshot of the find and replace window for Text Wrangler and a snippet of the text that I would like to replace, in this case it is between the <title> tags.

I would be grateful for any guidance.

Kindest regards

Alex Santos

[Alex Santos]

I've made some progress but I am missing one piece.

Find field: \<title>([\w\α\s]+)</title>

Replace field: \<title>\L\1\</title>

Here is what the above does. It finds the following line:

<title>POWIATOWY MIĘDZYSZKOLNY KONKURS BIBLIJNY W RADZYMINIE</title>

the results are: <title>powiatowy miĘdzyszkolny konkurs biblijny w radzyminie</title>

The character Ę is not made lower case.

Also, I would like the first character to remain uppercase, the p in 'powiatowy'.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards

—Alex

[Thomas Fischer]

Dear Alex,

I can’t see how you can solve this using straight TW.

I use a Perl Script (easily called through Text -> Apply Text Filter).

On my machine the following will create something which looks like what you want:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

binmode(STDIN, ":utf8");

binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8"); 

while(<>){

s/\b(.+?)\b/\u\L$1/g;

print;

}

You might need to add some locale directive, and you’ll have to anchor this with your title tags.

Cheers

Thomas

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[Alex Santos]

Hi Thomas

Thank you very much for taking the time to look into this. I will certainly try the perl script. I spent hours following up with manual corrections because I couldn't go beyond what I created with TW. Again, thank you for the time to develop the script and for taking the time to reply, I sincerely appreciate it.

Kindest regards

—Alex

[Kimi Wei]

I’m looking for a way to save a clickable list of files I have opened in a text window, without keeping that window open. Is there a way to do that?

Kimi

Kimi Wei
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[Rich Siegel]

On Tuesday, November 29, 2016, Kimi Wei <kimi...@gmail.com> wrote:

>I’m looking for a way to save a clickable list of files I have opened
>in a text window, without keeping that window open. Is there a way to
>do that?

In BBEdit there is, yes. On the File menu, the "Save as Project"
command will do the job. (Projects are unique to BBEdit;
TextWrangler does not support them.)

R.
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[Patrick Woolsey]

On 11/29/16 at 11:53 AM, kimi...@gmail.com (Kimi Wei) wrote:

>I’m looking for a way to save a clickable list of files I
>have opened in a text window, without keeping that window open.
>Is there a way to do that?

Though TextWrangler does not have this capability, BBEdit allows
you to create & save project documents*, which you can use to
organize & quickly access groups of files. (* Along with many
other useful features. :-)

If you'd like to try this, you can download BBEdit 11 here:

<http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/demo.html>

BBEdit offers a 30-day evaluation period, and once that period
is over, it will continue working with a reduced feature set
which is still superior to TextWrangler's.

PS: If you have any feature-related questions while you're
evaluating BBEdit, please don't hesitate to contact us via <sup...@barebones.com>

Regards,

Patrick Woolsey
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Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com/>