Hi,
Given I've got dozens of folders with more than 1GB of XML documents in
them, I'm doing the following grep search from the command line:
grep -h -o -R -E '(\{|\[)\s*[a-z]+\s*([0-9]+)\s*(\|.+?)?(\}|\])' * | bbedit
I'm then removing duplicates and sorting. This gives me a very nice list of
the data I'm looking for. However, it also includes data that is not
wrapped in specific XML elements. Since grep only does line by line search
(processes each line of input) and since the XML elements span several
lines, I'm hoping I can use BBEdit to do the search, something like:
(?ms)(?\<DataItem\>)(\{|\[)\s*[a-z]+\s*([0-9]+)\s*(\|.+?)?(\}|\])(?\<\/DataItem\>)
The problem here, though, is that the search results are sent to a search
results window. Is there any way to recreate the behavior of the grep
command above (the output is just the matching data with no filename, line
number, nor context)? I am fairly certain that the data I am looking for
(everything between [ or { and } or ]) does not span multiple lines (and if
it does it is a mistake on the input so it can be ignored).
I know I can fiddle with the IFS and do tricks like tr \n '' to put
everything onto a single line, but those create other problems of their own.
I know awk can do something similar but if I've understood what I've seen
online, it only simulates multiline search by using a loop (and I find the
syntax to be way, way too hard to follow in spite of how powerful it is,
so, not really a choice for me).
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Kind regards from the Canary Islands.
Ted Stresen-Reuter
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