![]() The Find & Replace dialog's "Match Case" and "Entire Word" options turn on special searching patterns. In fact, you have probably already used pattern searching without realizing it. A pattern like this would match "Call", "Cornwall", and "Criminal" as well as hundreds of other words. For instance, a pattern can describe words that begin with C and end in l. But if the list is arranged first name first, a simple grep pattern can be used to put the names in the proper order for sorting.Ī grep pattern, also known as a regular expression, describes the text that you are looking for. If the names appear last name first, you can easily put these names in a BBEdit window and use the Sort tool. For example, suppose you have a list of people's names that you want to alphabetize. Grep patterns offer a powerful way to make changes to your data that "plain text" searches simply cannot. Combined with the multi-file search and replace features, BBEdit's grep capabilities can make many editing tasks quicker and easier, whether you are modifying Web pages, extracting data from a file, or just rearranging a phone list. putting the same data into > the same> column in the table I would have saved hundreds of hours.This section describes the Grep option in BBEdit's Find command, which allows you to find and change text that matches a set of conditions you specify. If> the old tables had been consistent i.e. Unfortunately for me, > the> garbage I was starting with was so bad that I had to use BBedit to> deconstruct the tables and then load the resulting text file into > Pan. That> works well for consistently designed tables. Works well and I also use > BBedits> FTP function to upload as well.> As for the ability to suck in an existing html table into > Panorama. You can use one of the WYSIWG editors > to create> your template, but I find it much easier to follow this workflow > to simply> replace the inventory with the output from Pan after it has been > modified.> I too use Captain FTP to upload my site. I could > have hacked> around Jim's wizard to make adjustments, but I found, especially > when I was> trying to get the site up quickly, that it was easier for me to > use the GREP> capability of BBedit to transform the table in the generated file > and then> simply paste it into my already created web pages which are largely> variation on a basic theme. However, for me the output from > the wizard> did not generate the css-based code I was looking for. For > me that> is not an issue since I replaced all of the html for the table to > support my> css formatted table-easy to do. First the > default html to> output the table has a missing / at the end of the table html. Procedures are shared in a > user> library to make it easier to keep the databases using the most recent> version of the procedure.> A couple of comments about the Text Export wizard. I have > procedures> to create buy buttons, create links to images including generating > image> names according to a naming convention, generally cleaning up > database> entries that is inconsistently input and page selection routines > to breakup> large databases into smaller web pages. I found it easier to > maintain> the stamp inventory in separate tables for each country or type of > stamp.> Autographs and Photos on the other had are all in their own table.> The site itself is all xhtml/css based, but all of the inventory > is output> from Panorama using the Text export wizard html options. The reason for the> abundance of files has to do with the catalog number we are using > for stamps> which does not lend itself to easy sorting. I completely redesigned my stepfather's > site> starting from a disaster of a site > largely> created from Word and Excel files by a consultant who knew little or> anything about the web.> The current inventory of stamps, autographs and photographs is > well over> 20,000 items stored in around 350 Panorama files. ![]() Not that I have the time or the expertise to > reinvent the html wheel right now.> David G.> At 6:40 PM -0700 8/10/05, Frank Tansey wrote:> I can attest to the fact that Panorama can be a powerful tool for > building> and maintaining web sites. Ever dabbled with SiteWarrior or > are you only in Pan (regular)?> I wouldn't expect Jim would comment on that too much (Pan having > nearly the features of SiteWarrior - if true) as he wouldn't want > to give away the farm. I was thinking what you are describing sounds > more like what that program does. > ProVUE has a larger web engine - I assume built from Pan code, > called SiteWarrior. SiteWarrior is not a web engine, it's a website manager.On Aug 10, 2005, at 7:08 PM, wrote:> Thanks Frank, that's a lot. Message Panorama QNA Discussion Re: Pan HTML Chris Watts cw at
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