Hi Monks,

am a beginner so what I need is way out of my league at the moment.

Have a text file with html markup in format

<p>text text text</p>

and basically I need to wrap these sequentially with xliff tags so I get:

<bpt i="1" x="1">&lt;p&gt;</bpt>text text text<ept i="1">&lt;/p&gt;</ept>

so the bpt as opening and the ept as closing with the next found paired occurrence having counter "2" (<bpt i="2" x="2">) and so on,

can someone please help?

thanks in advance, bart

know it looks strange but it is in fact the syntax that I need

thanks for all the input so far

xyzzy - I tried running the code but got errors (about spaces and barewords)

In reply to Adding counters for text replacement by bartelby

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