Footnotes in PHP

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1

Hi, I am turning to you this time to ask for help with footnotes. I now have an article with php code in .txt format and I am editing it using Powershell. Everything has been successful except for the last thing. That is that I would need it to edit or add the following to each occurrence of <li> or <sup>: "<a id="note_X"> what should happen when X should increase by 1 after each replacement, i.e. for example the first one is found "<li>" and will be replaced by "<li><a id="note_1">", the next occurrence will be replaced by <li><a id="note_2"> and so on. I have tried these two solutions, but neither works:

if ($inFootnotesSection) { 

    if ($line -match "<li>") { 

        $line = $line -replace "(<li>)", "`$1<a id=`"note_$noteCounter`"></a>" 

        $noteCounter++ 

    } 

    if ($line -match "<sup>") { 

        $line = $line -replace "(<sup>)", "<a id=`"note_$noteCounter`"></a>`$1" 

        $noteCounter++ 

    } 

}

if ($inFootnotesSection -and $line -match "<li>|<sup>") { 

    if ($line -match "<li>") { 

        $line = $line -replace "(<li>)", "`$1<a id=`"note_$noteCounter`"></a>" 

    } 

    if ($line -match "<sup>") { 

        $line = $line -replace "(<sup>)", "<a id=`"note_$noteCounter`"></a>`$1" 

    } 

    $noteCounter++ 

}

I’m still attaching the exact wording of the part of the text that doesn’t correct me:

... study.
</p>
<h1>Footnotes</h1>
<ol>
<li>Acknowledging the...

Would anyone know what to do about it? I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.

2

What is the problem with your output? That might help us give you some direction…

From first glance, I don’t think you need the backtick in front of your variable names. If the output actually includes “$1”, that would be somewhere to look.

3

Thanks for your answer. With the rest of my code, it correctly modifies the title, but no longer just adds: <a id="note_1">" correctly. So this is what I get as a result:

...study.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Footnotes</h2>
<ol>
<li>Acknowledging the...

from that text:

... study.
</p>
<h1>Footnotes</h1>
<ol>
<li>Acknowledging the...
4

And I’m supposed to replace the backtick with something? I’m really not sure about this, so I’m afraid I’ll break it completely.

5

Guess I’m still missing something, but the little test below works for me. I created a txt with the input you included above (and a couple of extra lines) and then ran it through a simplified loop. I think it came out like you wanted it to.

Input file (C:\temp\XMLTest.txt):

... study.
</p>
<h1>Footnotes</h1>
<ol>
<li>Acknowledging the...
<li>Second note
<li>Third note

Script:

$tmp = Get-content C:\temp\XMLTest.txt
$noteCounter = 1
$tmp | foreach-object { 
    $line = $_
    if ($line -match "<li>") { 
        $line -replace "(<li>)", "<li><a id=`"note_$notecounter`"></a>`$1" 
        $noteCounter++
    }
}

Output:

<li><a id="note_1"></a><li>Acknowledging the...
<li><a id="note_2"></a><li>Second note
<li><a id="note_3"></a><li>Third note

If you’re still having problems, post a good chunk of your input and of your script.