Help with regexp
 

Hi!

I have a html file with following data in it.

<h3>Some title</h3><a name="something"></a>
March 13
...
<h3>Some other title</h3><a name="something"></a>
Feb 21
...

I want to replace such instances with

<h3>Some title</h3><a name="March 13"></a>
...
<h3>Some other title</h3><a name="Feb 21"></a>
...

Is it possible? Perl/Pything/Shell anything is good. Shell is preferred.

A pseudo code:
(1) If line begins with <h3>, then store it.
(2) If previous line was <h3>, then store the date, and rewrite the <h3> line with changed url, and also write the current line.
(3) else write the line.

btw. whats the use?

End

To create a table of blog entries and uniquely name-reference them :)
The date is actually full "date -Ru" so for all practical purposes, it will be unique...

Could you please tell me how to do it in perl? I don't remember it at all!

This does the trick for the first time.
For a script that I can run on the generated file, I will have to dig into your algorithm :)