[TxMt] Re: New User Find/Replace question

[Morgan Harris]

You need to use the regular expression find and replace. Check "Match Regular Expression" in the F&R box. If you don't know how to use regular expressions (they're great!) check out http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html.

Btw, with regular expressions you can get waaaaaay more advanced find and replace than you're describing. It's really useful. 

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Morgan Harris
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On Thursday, 15 December 2011 at 10:24 AM, Linda Miller, DVM wrote:

> I am a new user (purchased yesterday) of TextMate. In the past, I used
> a great program on Windows called Advanced Find and Replace. It
> allowed me to search through multiple files within a folder (I see
> that I can do that by a project in TextMate too). But, what I cannot
> figure out is if it will allow me to replace things like:
> 
> 1. Ignoring white space in HTML so that it will find all text to
> replace even if it is on a separate line and with tabs.
> Example:
> <p>This is a paragraph</p>
> 
> vs.
> 
> <p>
> This is a paragraph
> </p>
> 
> If it cannot search and find both of these then it is not quite as
> powerful as I had hoped.
> 
> 2. Advanced Find and Replace also could find text *between* two
> strings and either replace it or delete it. For instance, if I wanted
> to search through this:
> 
> I want to replace the word that is between these question marks in
> multiple documents. ?Delete Me? and ?Delete Me Too?
> 
> You would end up with:
> I want to replace the word that is between these question marks in
> multiple documents. ?? and ??
> 
> Sorry, not a great example :-( but it gets the point across.
> 
> This function though could allow you to delete all tables in an HTML
> document without actually knowing what was in the table....or many
> other uses. It can delete text before a string or after a string too.
> 
> Can TextMate perform these more complicated Search/Replace functions?
> If not, I still love the app but does anyone know of a comparable app
> that is similar to Advanced Find and Replace on the Mac since this
> program is not available for the Mac OSX?
> 
> Thank you,
> Linda
> 
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