[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Valloric

Harry, I don't know what regex flavor you are using, but all the engines that I know of require parentheses for capture groups.

So like this:

<p>([0-9]*)</p>

And then:

<h3>\1</h3>

For what Zelda wants, I'd use this:

<p>(\d+)</p>

With this:

<h3>\1</h3>

woohoo !! thanks valloric ! that worked perfectly. now when i'm done with all my other corrections i can copy all my html into previous sigil and add in my chapter break divs with a simple find and replace on <h3>. joy.

Originally Posted by Valloric

A good regex info site is http://www.regular-expressions.info/, and a great regex test site is Regexr. But do note that Regexr use the Perl notation for backreferences ("$#", e.g "$1", "$2"...) while Sigil uses the sed notation ("\#", e.g. "\1", "\2" ).

and thank you for that, too. i'm sure i'll have plenty of other expressions to find.