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Faster · 03-20-2011, 11:48 AM

Hi again. First the expression I gave you can be cleaned by removing the backslashes within the character class. Realized this two minutes after posting, but I knew it wouldn't do any harm Here's the change:

Code:

([^.:\?\!"”'’0-9])<br class="calibre1" />
becomes
([^.:?!"”'’0-9])<br class="calibre1" />

The reason is that only ]\^- need to be escaped within a character class.

Toxaris I think JustinD has performed the Regex and lost the original so he wants to know how to deal with the outcome.
My first suggesion would be to download the original file again if possible and follow Toxaris' suggestion.
If that's not an option you would need to decide at which punctuation characters you want to create a paragraph break. For example if you want the breaks where there is a full stop followed by a space:
Find:

Code:

(.)space

Replace:

Code:

\1<p>

The reason for the space is that you don't want to find the full stop just before some quote mark, for example:

Code:

"That's my dog." he said.

If you want to find more than the full stop just include them in a character class [...].
Example find:

Code:

([.!?])space

- but nothing is going to make it look correct as you'll be making every sentence into a paragraph.

03-20-2011, 11:48 AM	#7
Faster Connoisseur Posts: 61 Karma: 12096 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Tasmania Device: Sony PRS 650	Hi again. First the expression I gave you can be cleaned by removing the backslashes within the character class. Realized this two minutes after posting, but I knew it wouldn't do any harm Here's the change: Code: ([^.:\?\!"”'’0-9])<br class="calibre1" /> becomes ([^.:?!"”'’0-9])<br class="calibre1" /> The reason is that only ]\^- need to be escaped within a character class. Toxaris I think JustinD has performed the Regex and lost the original so he wants to know how to deal with the outcome. My first suggesion would be to download the original file again if possible and follow Toxaris' suggestion. If that's not an option you would need to decide at which punctuation characters you want to create a paragraph break. For example if you want the breaks where there is a full stop followed by a space: Find: Code: (.)space Replace: Code: \1<p> The reason for the space is that you don't want to find the full stop just before some quote mark, for example: Code: "That's my dog." he said. If you want to find more than the full stop just include them in a character class [...]. Example find: Code: ([.!?])space - but nothing is going to make it look correct as you'll be making every sentence into a paragraph.