n00b Vi Q/reg expression for html

Reploid · 2009-03-06 18:32:50

How do I wrap tags around paragraphs globally??

And when I try to wrap around a line, i get the error E488: trailing characters.

:28,32s/.*/<i>&</i>/g

. I thought this would wrap italic markers around the whole lines from 28 to 32, what am I doing wrong?

Oh, and if anyone has a link to a good tutorial for n00bs on global substitutions by regular expressions, don't keep it to yourselves. :-)

Last edited by Reploid (2009-03-06 18:39:35)

Mr.Elendig · 2009-03-06 18:40:25

Reploid wrote:

How do I wrap tags around paragraphs globally??
And when I try to wrap around a line, i get the error E488: trailing characters.
:28,32s/.*/&/g
. I thought this would wrap italic markers around the whole lines from 28 to 32, what am I doing wrong?
Oh, and if anyone has a link to a good tutorial for n00bs on global substitutions by regular expressions, don't keep it to yourselves. :-)

You have to escape the / in , or use another delimiter.

Reploid · 2009-03-06 18:51:25

28,37s/.*/<i>&<\/i>/g

It worked!! This will same me of TONS of time, yay! Thanks!!!!

What would I put in there to signal that I want to replace a paragraph?

EDIT: cheated a little:

:%s /^$/<\/p><p>

inserting the paragraph markers on the blank lines instead of around paragraphs, and just inserting the first manually.

Last edited by Reploid (2009-03-06 22:19:56)

Husio · 2009-03-06 22:27:03

Take a look at http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1697

Reploid · 2009-03-08 12:53:19

Thx @ Husio. Will experiment with script a little later, trying to learn the basic stuff for now.

Another question:

I have sentences like:

 <p><span class=font25>4th completely revised edition</span></p>

However, I can only seem to substitute the sentences with font0-9. (!)

This doesn't work:
:%s\(.*\)<\/b><\/span>/\1/

This doesn't work:
:%s

This doesn't work:

What would help me get rid of the formatting markup??

Last edited by Reploid (2009-03-08 12:54:02)

Procyon · 2009-03-08 13:01:13

Do you want to get rid of all tags?
Try this:

:%s/<[^>]*>//g

Reploid · 2009-03-08 13:41:37

EDIT: I just wanted to remove a few types of tags, but by modifying your script a little, I could make it work by a few keypresses. Thank you so VERY VERY much.

(I did

 :%s/<span[^>]*>//g

and:

:%s/<\/span[^>]*>//g

)

But, seeing as I am trying to learn this stuff, and not just have ppl script for me, how would I go about to include a range from 0-99 in my pattern? [0-9][0-9] didn't work??

Another thing that I spent the entire yesterday, trying to figure out, was how to take the name "super heading" and create "super_heading.html" out of it, making it apply to all the "super duper duper headings" as well.

Last edited by Reploid (2009-03-08 14:15:48)

rson451 · 2009-03-08 13:47:22

[0-9]+ will match any number, any amount of characters (at least one).

Reploid · 2009-03-08 14:10:54

rson451, that doesn't seem to work.

I created a testfile to eliminate the chance of me typing something unintentionally looking just like this:

font
font23
font55
font1
font9
font8

... and then I type
:%s/font[0-9]+/I love reg ex/

It does not replace the font23, font1 etc with "I love reg ex" , it just spits out E486: pattern not found: font[0-9]+

Procyon · 2009-03-08 14:20:59

in :s it has to be \+
:%s/[0-9]\+/99/g should work
same as :%s/[0-9][0-9]*/99/g

The biggest problem is that regex is greedy, and that doesn't go well with html/xml.

So in tags matching for [^>]* is important.

About issue 2, if you take
<h1>s u m m e r holiday</h1>
And want to convert it to
<a href="s_u_m_m_e_r_holiday">s u m m e r holiday</a>

I don't know actually. I think vim is lacking strength.

You should try to do it with sed.

sed '{s~<h1>\([^<]*\)</h1>~\1~;T;h;s~ ~_~g;s~.*~<a href="&">~;G;s~$~</a>~;s~\n~~}' FILE.html

Reploid · 2009-03-08 14:56:57

The \+ worked, so I must have done something else wrong before, as I tried the \+ on my huge textfile. But the other solution you presented was a lot more elegant, so I'll just stick with that. I read a bit about the greedy stuff in the O'Reilly textbook, so I'll brush up on that to consolidate what I've learned so far. As for the underscore, well, at least I know there is a reason why I couldn't find something applying.

Thx 4 helping me out.

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