Pattern matching and homesite 5.5?

Question

Hello,
Is it possible to use pattern matching to change a whole
series of instances
similar to the one below?
<a name="track-records"><h2>Assignment Track
Records</h2></a>
to
<a name="track-records"></a>
<h2>Assignment Track Records</h2>
I need to be able to transfer the text between the <h2>
and </h2> tags
to the next line...
Can I use $1, $2 etc?
Cheers
Geoff

Answer 1

<a name="track-records"><h2>Assignment Track
Records</h2></a>
becomes
<a name="track-records"><h2>Assignment Track
Records</h2></a>
I assume you want to do this for a number of different h2
elements?
i have had success with backreferencing bracketed expressions
as follows:
find: <a name="track-records"><h2>(pattern for
your h2 text)</h2></a>
replace with:
<a name="track-records">
<h2>\1</h2></a>
the carriage return is manually entered, and \1
backreferences the result of the pattern matched by first bracketed
expression. similarly use \2 and \3 for second and third bracketed
patterns.
i could not tell you how to match a line break / carriage
return - the help only tells you how to match everythin but a line
break or carriage return - something like #chr(10)##chr(13)# but
don't quote me on that...
owen