Question

Im trying to turn text into an HTML table and im stuck on the part to separate rows.

Lets say I started with text that was displayed like this:

1: a

2: w

3: p

Then with a little bit of REGEX I turned it into

<td>1</td>
<td>a</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>w</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>p</td>

Now how (with REGEX) would I turn that into this:

<tr>
  <td>1</td>
  <td>a</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>2</td>
  <td>w</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>3</td>
  <td>p</td>
</tr>

The indents are just there so you can see it better, I dont actually want it to add them.

So somehow I would make it look for

<td>[0-9]

Then select that and the next line then add the and to it by doing

<td>\1<\td>

But I dont know how to do that entirely, if anyone can understand that mess could you help me please? D:

Edit: Worked it out!

I started with

1: a

2: w

3: p

Then I did this:

Find: ": "
Replace: "\r\n"

Then

Find: "([0-9])"
Replace: "<td>\1<td>"

Then

Find: "^([^<]+)$"
Replace: ""

Then

Find: "(<td>[0-9]</td>)[\r][\n]"
Replace: "\1"

Huehuehue, then

Find: "^(.*<td>[0-9]*+)$"
Replace: "<tr>\1</tr>"

There was probably a MUCH easier way to do this, but I finally got it 😀

Answer 1

Your first regex should convert the initial text into 3 lines, not 6 as you show:

<td>1</td><td>a</td>
<td>2</td><td>w</td>
<td>3</td><td>p</td>

Then the problem becomes relatively simple.