From: ishamid <ishamid@...>
Date: 2006-12-03T02:45:08+09:00
Subject: search and replace

[total novice here]

Hi,

I have a series of expressions like this (shortened from verbose xml)
=====================
[<text:sequence text:ref-name="refAutoNr0">1</text:sequence>
[<text:sequence text:ref-name="refAutoNr1">2</text:sequence>
[<text:sequence text:ref-name="refAutoNr2">3</text:sequence>
[<text:sequence text:ref-name="refAutoNr3">4</text:sequence>
=====================

I want to globally replace each such line with just

====================
\head
====================

followed by a line space so I get

====================
\head

\head

\head

\head
====================

etc.

I am modifying a script with lines like

====================
data.gsub!(/.*?<(office:text).*?>(.*?)<\/\1>.*/mois) do
                '\starttext' + "\n" + $2 + "\n" + '\stoptext'
====================

and don't yet know enough to completely understand. Probably a few more
hours/days of study will get me there but I need this urgently so...

THNX in advance

Best
Idris