Question

I have a dictionary in .txt format, which looks like this:

term 1
    definition 1
    definition 2

term 2
    definition 1
    definition 2
    definition 3
etc.

There is a tab always before a definition, basically it’s like this:

term 1
[tab]definition 1
[tab]definition 2
etc.

Now I need to wrap every term and it’s definitions with <term> tag, i.e:

<term>
term 1
    definition 1
    definition 2
</term>

I was trying to use regular expressions to find term with it’s definitions, but with no luck. Could you please help me with this?

Thank you for any suggestions!

Answer 1

Try this regular expression:

(^|\n).+(\n[ \t]+.+)*

Assuming that ^ marks the start of the string, \n is the line break character and . does not match line breaks.