From samjnaa@gmail.com Mon Dec  5 02:39:49 2005
From: Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com>
To: kde@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Help with using KFileReplace regular expressions
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 08:09:28 +0530
Message-ID: <200512050809.28477.samjnaa@gmail.com>
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I need to use a regular expression in KFileReplace to replace:

<a href="*.htm">

by

<a href="*.html">

But if I enter the above two as the search and replace strings respectively 
and say "go", (enable regular expressions is ON) I get zero replacements, 
even though the app says it has scanned all the 58 files in my working 
directory.

Also, I need to account for the fact that there may be a line-break between 
the <a tag and the href value, so please tell me how to do that too. If there 
is a line-break, I need to include a line-break in the replace string too.

I am prevented from using simply "*.htm" -> "*.html", because I also have 
external links on my site, and the servers I point to may or may not redirect 
html to htm, if the file they hold ends in htm and not html. But if I use <a 
href="*.htm"> I avoid this problem, since I have all external links on my 
site labeled as class="ext" (i.e. <a class="ext" href="*.htm">) so I can give 
them a different colour. So if I enter <a href="*.htm"> I avoid this problem.

Please tell me what I can do. Thanks.

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