String replacing with Regex

[MaxV]

Hello,
I read on forum and search engines, but I didn't find a solution.
I need to substitute in a text like this:

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# Title 1
Some text, very long...
# Title 2
Some other text, very long...
...

to html like this:

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<h1># Title 1</h1>
Some text, very long...
<h1>#Title 2</h1>
Some other text, very long...
...

I can't use replace, since I have to store the content between # and newline.
I can't use neither matchText(), because I don't know how many replace I need.
I only know that a good regex for my seach is:

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(\n|^)#.*\n

Do you have any idea?

[Klaus]

Hi Max,

I have no idea about RegEx, so I would do something like ntis:

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...
## tRawText will contain your list WITHOUT htmltags
## tHTMLText = your list with htmltags
put empty into tHTMLText
repeat for each line tLine in tRawText
  if char 1 of tLine = "#" then
    put "<h1>" & tLine & "</h1>" & CR after tHTMLText
  else
   ## You might want to add <p></p> tags here ;-)
   put tLine & CR after tHTMLText
 end if
end repeat
delete char -1 of tHTMLList
## Now do whatever you like with tHTMText
...

Best

Klaus

[MaxV]

Thank you Klaus, I'll try to do all my tasks with chunk expressions...

[Klaus]

Oops, little typo in the last 2 lines:
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delete char -1 of tHTMLText ## not tHTMLList!
## Now do whatever you like with tHTMLText
...

[MaxV]

The result is here: http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/stack/7 ... own-Editor