DataMystic

I have a bunch of html files with

<title>A generic title that is the same for all files</title>

and then farther down in the file
<span>Title: This is the real title and it varies in all the files</span>

I have not been able to figure out a way to replace the generic title with the real title text within the span tags. I have been able to isolate the real title text but cannot figure out how to reuse it in a replace

Any help would be most appreciated.

John

OK I used textpipe to create a file of filenames and replacement strings then used the technique descibed in the post about replace with filenames and it works. Sort of cumbersome but got the job done.

John

You can do a lot better using a pattern match for

<title>(.*)</title>(.*)<span>Title: (.*)</span>

Replace with

<title>$3</title>$2<span>Title: $3</span>