Regular Expression Puzzle

Alan McKay alan.mckay at gmail.com
Sun Nov 29 14:53:09 UTC 2009


> Those sample lines iI provided are from the navigation links I put at
> the top of all of my web pages, and it would be nice to do a broadcast
> change to update, or change their appearance instead pf having to edit
> every single file by hand, which takes hours.

You need a different approach to that problem - you should be using
generated pages

> Well, I'm back to reading up on regular exprssions to see if there is
> some possible way to make a broadcast change through all of my pages to
> change the appearance of the navigation links.

Oh I'm sure it can be done, but I think you are going about this the
wrong way.  What you are doing is very prone to errors.


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