Robert_Charlton - 6:35 pm on Apr 15, 2007 (gmt 0)

I'd like to be able to set up NoteTab Pro to do global search and replacement of sections of code in a group of documents. The sections would be identified by unique starting and ending text strings, but what's in between might vary. This would allow global replacement of sections, but wouldn't be broken by manual change in specific documents. (I understand that these manual changes would be lost in the replacements). Is it possible?

I haven't gotten into either regular expressions or Clip Programming with NTP, but I'm thinking I'd have to use one or the other to accomplish this, if it can be done.

My approach will be to identify a starting string and an ending string, and set up a routine to globally search and replace these and everything in between them. If doable, this would effectively work like the Library Items in DreamWeaver, I'm thinking, and be useful for maintaining global page sections like nav menus.

I'm not really a programmer, but could probably tackle this with a code outline and indications of what syntax I need to learn.

Anyone done this? If Clip Programming is required, this is NTP specific. If regular expressions will suffice, then experience with any text editor supporting regex would probably apply. Thoughts?