[JimmyG]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

You got your anchors flipped ^ is the beginning of a string(or line) and $ is the end.

But even ^([^<].+)$ isn't going to be very useful in a Sigil formatted file. "Lines" get very hairy in a file. A paragraph is typically on one "line" (meaning no line-break characters) from <p> to </p>. Same with just about any block-level element. And many lines are likely to be indented, so they don't start with "<" they start with a space. That's probably why they're getting included in your search.

It's including blank lines because blank lines DON'T start with a "<", they start with line-break character(s).

There really shouldn't be any (or very, very few anyway) "lines" that don't begin with a "<" (or an indent before a "<"). Some css styling in the header and the like maybe.

If it's these relatively rare instances you're looking for perhaps something like:

^\w.+$

might come close?

Yeah, I caught that $^. I was making my problem too complicated by trying to do it in Sigil. The lines without p tags are all contiguous, so I just copy them to EditPadPro (where ^([^<].*)$ does not include the blank line) and then copy them back to Sigil. Actually, doing it that way, ^(.+)$ should work, but the original worked so I just left it.