DataMystic

Hi Simon,

Remember that I need to output 2 files, the transformed HTML file + a text file with the extracted text. How do I do that without the secondary output?

My question now is, could I run this stuff with Textipe Lite?

I'm only using "Find perl patern" and secondary output functions in the filter I described, but I need search/replace list (with tab delimited text file) to reverse the process. Does Textpipe Lite have that? The Standard and Pro versions ...

I revised the initial perl pattern to: >([^<\r][^<\r].*)<

This allows capturing text strings that start with a space, but not something like:
> <IMG...><

Neither < nor return chars are allowed as 1st or 2nd chars of the string.

I revised again to >(&nbsp;| |)([^<\r][^<\r].*|)(&nbsp;| |)(\r\n ...

Solved it! :D

At the end of
+--Perl pattern [^(.+)$] with [[@randomdigit@@randomdigit@@randomdigit@@randomdigit@@randomdigit@]]
I added a tab (\t) + $1 (text) + return (\r\n).

Then I output this (only tried output to clipboard for testing). The return at the end makes sure each code/text pair ...

Either I'm doing something wrong, or [^<>]*? targets everything inside or outside <>.

If I make a "find pattern" for [^<>]*? and replace with $0, then add a subfilter replacing . with @randomdigit I get something like:
<4845>856202931309492836753331170<66489>
from
<font>You can type sample text in ...

That pattern doesn't seem to work...

I'm wondering if Textpipe can do this. I want to extract every line of text from a HTML file, replacing each with a short (5 char max) random or sequencial code, and output every code + text line to a separate text file.

So, I have an HTML file like this:

<.....> text line 1 </.....>
<.....> text ...