Need help with a footer

[MacEvansCB]

I have been able to remove part of a footer during conversion. The regex builder shows me:

<b>Page  1</b><br>

which works when using:

<b>Page  \d+</b><br>

But this leaves an blank line in the text for every removal.
The full header actually is:

<b>Page  1</b><br>
<hr>

which is on two lines, where the HR leaves a blank line in the converted file.
I can get regex to see either line correctly, which will remove either the page number or the blank line.
But I have no clue how to get both lines recognized together.
Can someone please give me the correct incantation to link these two lines????

[MacEvansCB]

Jeez ... found my own answer .... looking at the defaults, I found a vertical bar "pipe" character and the old UNIX pile in my head woke up ... tried:

<b>Page  1</b><br>|<hr>

which worked perfectly.

[Manichean]

That's one way to do it, the regex will then match either the subexpression on the left side of the pipe or the one on the right side. You could also use something like

<b>Page\s+\d+</b><br>\s+<hr>

which will match the whitespaces that make up the linebreak. Another way to do it would be

(?s)<b>Page\s+\d+</b><br>.+?<hr>

which uses a flag to tell the dot wildcard to match anything including newlines and then uses a dot to match the newline.

[MacEvansCB]

I've been working with my eBooks in Caliber for several months now without any problems, but I just ran into something I can't figure out.

The following is a page break for one of my file ... ending and starting text included:

nervously  with  the  other  specialists  stationed  at  the <br>
1 <br>
 <br>
<hr>
<A name=6></a>end of the runway, waiting for the bombing mission to <br>

So I would normally do:

+\d+ <br>|<hr>|<A name=+\d+></a>

But the parser won't take an expression starting with a plus sign.
What does one do in this situation???

[atjnjk]

Normally, I select&copy everything I want to remove to "Regex:" textbox

<br>
1 <br>
 <br>
<hr>
<A name=6></a>

Then I replace every number in that textbox with "\d+"

<br>
\d+ <br>
 <br>
<hr>
<A name=\d+></a>

Be careful with whitespaces.

I think a standalone "+" doesn't do anything and is an error. You should read An introduction to regular expressions and All about using regular expressions in calibre.

[user_none]

Originally Posted by MacEvansCB

But the parser won't take an expression starting with a plus sign.
What does one do in this situation???

The plus sign has special meaning. It means match one or more of of the expression / character before. There is nothin before so it's an invalid expression. If you want to match a plus sign character you need to escape it. Escaping tells the parser to treat it as the character itself.

[Tharadalf]

Hello everyone,
I am also trying to remove page numbers, which in text look like this:

3 <br>

So I came up with this regexp:

^\d+ <br>$

but it is not working for me. What am I doing wrong?

[user_none]

Originally Posted by Tharadalf

Hello everyone,
I am also trying to remove page numbers, which in text look like this:

3 <br>

So I came up with this regexp:

^\d+ <br>$

but it is not working for me. What am I doing wrong?

1) use (?mu)before ^ to enable multple line matching. otherwise ^ matches the start of the string.

2) Use \s instead of a space to match new line characters. Also add + to match multiple spaces.

[Tharadalf]

Originally Posted by user_none

1) use (?mu)before ^ to enable multple line matching. otherwise ^ matches the start of the string.

2) Use \s instead of a space to match new line characters. Also add + to match multiple spaces.

Yeah, this worked just fine, thank you man.