Is this possible with regular Expressions in Dreamweaver?

Question

I'm working on a CSS file in Dreamweaver. There are 100's of lines like this:

.ab_{background-image:url(../path/path/path/path/xxxxx.jpg);background-repeat:no-repeat;}

ab_ must stay the same
xxxxx is different. Example, xxx01, xxx02, etc.
ab_xxxxx is what I want to append.

I want to get xxxxx value and put it near the beginning, after the ab_ like this:

.ab_xxxxxx{background-image:url(../path01/path02/path03/path04/xxxxx.jpg);background-repeat:no-repeat;}

so another one would be

.ab_xxxx45{background-image:url(../path01/path02/path03/path04/xxx45.jpg);background-repeat:no-repeat;}

I'm not sure if this possible, I know regular expressions can be tricky, but if this is possible could someone point in me in the right direction?

Answer 1

Find: \\.ab_(.+/([^/]+)\\.jpg)

Replace: .ab_$2$1

Explanation:

.ab_ matches the literal text ".ab_".

(.+/([^/]+)\\.jpg) matches up to ".jpg" and stores the result in $1 .

/([^/]+) matches a forward slash then captures anything that is not a forward slash up to ".jpg" and stores it in $2 .

Answer 2

Not sure about dreamweaver regex, but try this in notepad++

search : ^\\.ab_(.*)\\/(.*).jpg(.*)$
replace with : .ab_\\2\\1/\\2.jpg\\3

It's not the most accurate regex, but it seems to work, especially for something that must be a one-time deal.

Input :

.ab_{background-image:url(../path/path/path/path/xxxxx.jpg);background-repeat:no-repeat;}
.ab_{background-image:url(../path/path/path/path/xxxxx1.jpg);background-repeat:no-repeat;}
.ab_{background-image:url(../path/path/path/path/xxxxx2.jpg);background-repeat:no-repeat;}
.ab_{background-image:url(../path/path/path/path/xxxxx3.jpg);background-repeat:no-repeat;}

Output :

.ab_xxxxx{background-image:url(../path/path/path/path/xxxxx.jpg);background-repeat:no-repeat;}
.ab_xxxxx1{background-image:url(../path/path/path/path/xxxxx1.jpg);background-repeat:no-repeat;}
.ab_xxxxx2{background-image:url(../path/path/path/path/xxxxx2.jpg);background-repeat:no-repeat;}
.ab_xxxxx3{background-image:url(../path/path/path/path/xxxxx3.jpg);background-repeat:no-repeat;}