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Old 03-06-2013, 05:20 AM   #208
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Originally Posted by Ripplinger View Post
That's getting closer and it will pick up more, but it won't work on a sentence where the end quote isn't directly before the </p>, so it wouldn't pick up this sentence if the beginning quote was missing:

“But how would you deal with these miseries out of the past?” I asked.

Even if there were 2 regex strings to run to be able to pick up both sentence structures would still be much better than just hoping you find them all in proofing.
this should work.

Code:
(<p[^>]*>)(?:\s+)?([^“”]+?”)(.*?)(?:\s+)?(</p>)

\1“\2\3\4
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