I’m cleaning up my Delicious bookmarks and although there is “bulk edit”, you cannot perform a search and then execute the bulk edit. I was removing a bunch of photos from Twitpic that had been pulled into Delicious using Packrati.us, an app that connects your Twitter account to your Delicious bookmarks.
So, after Googling, I realized I was going to need to export, search & replace then upload my bookmarks. This would be a perfect opportunity to use my newly budding programming skills!
I checked out regular expressions and eventually came up with this code snippet which selected two full lines of code allowing me to do search and replace quiclkly!
<DT><A HREF="http://twitpic.com(/.*)[A-Z0-9]*?</A>n<DD>[A-Z0-9].*
This code is searching for characters that match.
[A-Z0-9]
works wonderful to span sentences and I found out it was
$/n
to continue searching on the next line (The dollar sign isn’t necessary to start a new line but I couldn’t get the anchor to show otherwise)
helped me cleanup whitespace left after the search and replace
These resources helped me get this expression setup
http://www.regular-expressions.info/brackets.html
http://www.regular-expressions.info/anchors.html
http://www.araxis.com/merge/topic_regexpreference.html
I've also realized that learning to program is important because Grace Murry Hopper and Ada Lovelace both tackled it. So can I!
