Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:18:23 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: perl regex help request... . Message-ID: <20060322231823.GA23486@thought.org>
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Guys,
perlmonks was helpful in explaining that "[[](\d+)[]]" is
what is required to match [NN]. So that will catch the
footnote numbers. I had thought that I would have to do the
<A NAME="NN"> NN xyz </A> anchor by hand. Maybe not, if
somebody can clue me in on the perl regex for matching
"NN plus any/every character following until \n"
I can't find my regex book, and am not exactly clear if this
will work, but if I go back over my files and insert braces
around each note (at the page bottom) like:
{14, DEWEY AND TUFTS, *Ethics*, pp 345-7, § 4 }
would this:
s/{(\d+)}(.+)/
capture the "14" plus the rest on the bracketed line? The
HTML would be (methinks):
<A NAME="14">14, DEWEY AND TUFTS, *Ethics*, pp 345-7, § 4 </A>
with the $1 capturing the 14 and $2 capturing the rest?
The entire s//g expr would be::
s/{(\d+)}(.+)/<A NAME="$1> $1 $2 </A>
If this is right, I'll be very pleased with myself; else I'm
hoping that somebody can clue me in.
gary
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