Question

I have a bunch of XML that has lines that look like this

<_char font_name='/ITC Stone Serif Std Bold' italic='true' /> 

but sometimes look like this

<_char font_size='88175' italic='true' font_name='/ITC Stone Serif Std Bold' /> 

Here’s what I need to do

• Replace italic=’true’ with italic=’false for every line that contains ITC Stone Serif Std Bold, regardless of whether it comes before OR after the italic part.

Can this be done with a single regex?

I’m not looking for a real-time solution. I just have a ton of XML files that have this ‘mistake’ in them and I’m trying to do a global search-and-replace with PowerGrep which would require a single regex. If scripting’s the only way to do it, then so be it.

Answer 1

Does the simple use of ‘|’ operator satisfy you ?

name='/ITC Stone Sans Std Bold'[^>]italic='(true)'|italic='(true)'[^>]font_name='/ITC Stone Serif Std Bold' 

That should detect any line with the attribute name before of after attribute italic with value true.