Question

I want to target or match only the first occurrence per line

Typical Scenario:

I have an HTML Structure that I am using in JavaScript.

<ul>
    <li> ABC </li>
    <li> DEF </li>
    <li> GHI <span> GHI-SPAAN </span> </li>
</ul>

To convert the above into a string, in my editor, I can simply Find & replace EOL with a '+
and beginning of line with a ' so that the code would be

var tpl = ''+
    '<ul> '+
    '<li> ABC </li> '+
    '<li> DEF </li> '+
    '<li> GHI <span> GHI-SPAAN </span> </li> '+
    '</ul> ';

But you see, I loose the indentation when I replace the beginning of line with '<

So I want to uniquely target (target only the first occurrence of < and replace with '< )

I am using KOMODO edit and Sublime Text 2

Answer 1

I’m not a KomodoEdit user, but I tried these replacements and they worked:

• starting quote: replace ^(\s*)< with \1<
• ending quote: replace >\s*$ with >' +

Hope this helps.