What if you first GREP for the lines with "cat=" and then pipe that to SED to replace the '{' and '}'

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On Apr 6, 2011, at 6:26 AM, Marius Hofert wrote:

Dear textmate experts,

I have a text file with lines like this:

dog={brown, bark}, cat={white, purr}, mouse={gray, beep},

I would like to end up with this:

dog={brown, bark}, cat={{white, purr}}, mouse={gray, beep},

Replacing "cat={" by "cat={{" is trivial, but how can I replace the closing brace "}" by "}}" for that lines? I tried to work with regular expressions and ^.*cat={.*$ matches the lines starting with "cat={", but I couldn't manage to tell textmate's "Find" to basically add something to a line. I also seems to me that although the "Find"-box in textmate's "Find" can deal with regular expressions, the "Replace"-box ignores regular expressions.

I know textmates "Edit Each Line in Selection", but I can't select all lines starting with "cat={" by hand, there are simply too many in my file.

Cheers,

Marius

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