Find & Replace Question

[Doormats & More]

How might I tell Dreamweaver (version 20) to go thru the current page & find all of the "-" hyphen characters that are located inside ALT attributes inside IMG tags. Very similarly then I need to do the same with the TITLE attributes.

The nearest which I can conceive is shown in this image. The top portion seems correct but then I do not see any options in the Action area which would allow me to specify to remove the "-" hyphen.

Thanks.

[Nancy OShea]

You will need a Regular Expression for this. And I'm RegEx challenged.

[Doormats & More]

Thanks. I am also RegEx challanged.

[Doormats & More]

Looking thru the help documentation it is easy to understand how one would be RexEx challanged.

"Causes certain characters and short strings (such as ?, *, \w, and \b) in your search string to be interpreted as regular expression operators. For example, a search for the b\w*\b dog will match both the black dog and the barking dog."

[Jon Fritz]

Without RegEx, this can still be done in any version of DW that allows you to select multiple lines by holding Ctrl while dragging code (CC2019+)

1. Select your code, using Ctrl/Cmnd+Drag to highligh multiple lines
2. Use the Find in Current Document function (Cmnd/Ctrl+F) not the Find & Replace in Files option (Cmnd/Ctrl+Shift+F)).
It will open a single text field across the bottom of your open document.
3. Click the small arrow to the left of the text field that opened. that will reveal the Replace field
4. Add a hyphen to the top field and a space to the bottom
5. Hit the Replace All button
6. Rinse and repeat for all of your hyphenated blocks of text.

Note: if all of your text blocks are very similar, where only the last two characters are different like your screenshot, you can select the text that is the same across all of them in the first instance, then hit Ctrl+Shift+F3 to select all copies of that text across the entire document, then do the F&R as noted above.

It's a lot slower than RegEx, but without having someone create the search for you, this is probably the fastest option.

[Doormats & More]

Thanks all,

I'll give that a try.