I've been able to duplicate this problem using the regular expression posted, using oXygen 9 on Mac OS X, using the lyrics below. (Numbered as if they were a basic program, as there are < 10 lines :-) However, I'm not sure it's a bug. I think maybe the regexp is working as advertised. The ".+" in the second parenthetical is greedy, and should grab all but the last digit, I think. To make it non-greedy use ".+?". original:
<l>(.+)(\d+)(</l>) <l n="$2"> $1 ($2) $3
possible improved version: <l>(.+?)(\d+)(</l>) <l n="$2"> $1 ($2) $3
Strangely, from time to time only the first digit is being copied with the replace function, although all digits are being highlighted with the search function.
Of course, all digits (actually, the entire <l> element) is being highlighted with the search function, no? Below ----- <lg type="test"> <note>To the tune of Weber & Rice's <title>Don't Cry for me Argentina</title></note> <l>Don't cry for me Charles Goldfarb, 10</l> <l>The truth is I do not miss them, 20</l> <l>All of those features, 30</l> <l>Because we're lazy, 40</l> <l>To save us typing, 50</l> <l>They drove us crazy. 60</l> </lg>