Javascript Regular Expression String List

Question

I have a text file that looks like this:

1)  bla bla bla 

 bla bla bl- 

a bla bla 

 2)  bla bla bl- 

a bla bla bl- 

  a bla bla 


3)  bla bla bl- 

a bla bla bl- 

a bla bla

I want to take every list item and put it inside a

<p class="bla"></p>

html tag. I also want to fuse the words that are broken up into syllables.

I only managed to get the begining of the list item

^[ ]+[0-9]+\)

and words that end with the minus sign

[a-zA-ZäöüßÄÖÜ]+\-

I wish to do this in JavaScript, but if it can be done in notepad++ too better still.

Thanks

If you aren't concerned with a complete solution you can do a replace on your numbers with  and then fix the first and last ones. You can also combine the syllabled lines in notepad++ by doing a replace for -\x0d\x0a (dash and then \r\n effectively) using multiline replace — anthony sottile
– anthony sottile, Commented Apr 1, 2013 at 16:26
for example a list item would be all the characters that begin with 1) (included) and end at the beginning of 2) (not included) and so on... — Tase
– Tase, Commented Apr 1, 2013 at 16:40

Bergi · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-01 16:34:19Z

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I want to take every list item and put it inside a html tag

I would have recommended a <li> tag :-) What you want is the string that begins with [0-9]+\), is preceded by linebreaks or the file begin and is followed by either linebreaks and the next point, or the file end. This regex should do that:

(^|\s*\n\s*)\d+\)([\s\S]+?)(?=\s*$|\s*\n\s*\d+\))

Now you can replace it with $1$2. You might want to exclude some of the whitespaces from the matching groups to remove them.

I want to fuse the words that are broken up into syllables.

For that, we can match a word end, followed by the minus sign and linebreaks:

\b-\s*\n\s*

Then replace that with the empty string.

answered Apr 1, 2013 at 16:34

Bergi

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3 Comments

Tase Over a year ago

I can't get it working. How am I suppose to use $1$2 ?

Bergi Over a year ago

In JS: result = string.replace(/(^|\s*\n\s*)\d+\)([\s\S]+?)(?=\s*$|\s*\n\s*\d+\))/g, '$1$2');. I think $1 and co do reference the groups in Notepad++ as well.

Tase Over a year ago

I was using string.replace(/(^|\s*\n\s*)\d+)([\s\S]+?)(?=\s*$|\s*\n\s*\d+))/g, "$1$2"); and it gave SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier. That was the problem. Thanks Bergi

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