Regular Expressions In Dreamweaver

Hi i am using Dreamweaver CS3, i am creating more than 100 HTML files every couple of days and need to use the regular Expressions Feature in the Find and Replace box but couldn't find or generate the expression i am looking For, i want to Replace every images name to be same as it's htm file name across all htm Files.
Ex : cieg.htm
<tr>
    <td colspan="2"><table id="Table_04" width="850" height="88" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr>
          <td><img src="Viva/XXXthefilenameXXX_38.gif" width="213" height="88"></td>
          <td><img src="Viva/XXXthefilenameXXX_39.gif" width="212" height="88"></td>
          <td><img src="Viva/XXXthefilenameXXX_40.gif" width="213" height="88"></td>
          <td><img src="Viva/XXXthefilenameXXX_41.gif" width="212" height="88"></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
</tr>
and replace it to be:
<tr>
    <td colspan="2"><table id="Table_04" width="850" height="88" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr>
          <td><img src="Viva/cieg_38.gif" width="213" height="88"></td>
          <td><img src="Viva/cieg_39.gif" width="212" height="88"></td>
          <td><img src="Viva/cieg_40.gif" width="213" height="88"></td>
          <td><img src="Viva/cieg_41.gif" width="212" height="88"></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
</tr>
and same as another htm file named zsac.htm
Any one knows a way to do it???
Regards

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I still haven't had the time to really become a professional when it comes to regular expressions, and sadly I am in need of one an finding it difficult to wrap my head around.
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So you have a string that starts { and goes until the first }. Then you have another string exactly the same. And you want to swap them. I'm not making any assumption that the second one has to look like a URL (that's a whole other minefield, but perhaps you could do something simple like it must start with http).
You don't specify how your text file is divided up, have you got this as a complete line to itself, or is it just a huge block of text? Preferably as individual lines.
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random_acts wrote:
> I'm working on a rather long regular expression in
dreamweaver code view. It
> has about 200+ characters in it.
I have never written a regex as long as that, but was
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http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
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Hi Winston,
I am still digesting the material from the regular expression book and will take sometime to become proficient with it.
It seems that using groupCount() to eliminate the unwanted text does not work in this case, since all the lines returned the same value. Ie 3 posted earlier. This may be because the patterns are complex and only a few were grouped together. Otherwise, could you provide an example using the string posted as opposed to a hyperthetic one. In the meantime, at least one solution have been found by defining an additional special pattern “\\A[^%].*\\Z”, before combining / intersecting both existing and the new special pattern to get the best of both world. Another approach that should also work is to evaluate the size of String.split() and only accept those lines with a minimum number of tokens.
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Hi @ all,
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Do you want to replace the random text with anything?
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Make a backup of the folder you want to edit, just in case anything goes wrong
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st3n wrote:
I would like to ask, if it is possible to combine more search and replace regular expressions in dreamweaver (direct input or combining .drw files)
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Hi i am using Dreamweaver CS3, i am creating more than 100 HTML files every couple of days and need to use the regular Expressions Feature in the Find and Replace box but couldn't find or generate the expression i am looking For, i want to Replace every images name to be same as it's htm file name across all htm Files.
Ex : cieg.htm
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and same as another htm file named zsac.htm
Any one knows a way to do it???
Regards

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