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zelda_pinwheel · 03-03-2010, 12:21 PM

I'm trying to automate a find and replace routine to change chapter numbers from paragraphs to headings. in other words, currently, they look like this : <p>1</p> and i want them to look like this : <h3>1</h3>

i first tried to do this with wildcards and i have no troubles finding the numbers, but unfortunately if i put <h3>?</h3> in the "replace" box, it replaces the number with "?". not helpful.

so now i'm trying regex search. i looked on the regex page here to find the code : http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/qregexp.html#introduction

i should say, i know nothing about regex, but i'm trying to learn a bit.

this expression <p>[0-9]{1,3}</p> finds what i want, but when i replace, i have the same problem as with the wildcards...

can someone tell me, what is the regex (or wildcard !) code for "don't touch the stuff in the middle, change only the tags" ??? there must be a way to do this !

03-03-2010, 12:21 PM	#1
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	More fun with regex / wildcards I'm trying to automate a find and replace routine to change chapter numbers from paragraphs to headings. in other words, currently, they look like this : <p>1</p> and i want them to look like this : <h3>1</h3> i first tried to do this with wildcards and i have no troubles finding the numbers, but unfortunately if i put <h3>?</h3> in the "replace" box, it replaces the number with "?". not helpful. so now i'm trying regex search. i looked on the regex page here to find the code : http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/qregexp.html#introduction i should say, i know nothing about regex, but i'm trying to learn a bit. this expression <p>[0-9]{1,3}</p> finds what i want, but when i replace, i have the same problem as with the wildcards... can someone tell me, what is the regex (or wildcard !) code for "don't touch the stuff in the middle, change only the tags" ??? there must be a way to do this !