reg.expr: how to detect the whole line?

[nbveh]

Hi!


i have this sort of header on every page:

<p class="calibre1"> BAD WRITING AND HOWTO FIX IT</p>

So i need to detect a line where all the characters are capital letters and there's always more than one word. I also need to make sure that the script wouldn't delete similar strings inside of the text which is NOT header.

Is there someone who could help me with it please? So far i've figured out how to detect strings of capital characters: [A-Z]{2,} and tried to use () to repeat the pattern search but just got all confused...

[theducks]

You only want lines with all Capitals (with space)?
I think this will work, but BE CAREFUL. it may grab titles
CASE SENSITIVE ticked

<p class=".+">(\s*[A-Z]){1,}</p>

<< repetition 1 to infiniity

[nbveh]

thanks!

It works almost perfectly, except:

it detects this kind of lines: <p class="calibre1"> I</p>

It detects lines with one word only.

Can i somehow limit is to choose like where there's more than one word? And more than one character?

Again, thanks a lot, i'll try to understand how it all works!

[theducks]

Originally Posted by nbveh

thanks!

It works almost perfectly, except:

it detects this kind of lines: <p class="calibre1"> I</p>

It detects lines with one word only.

Can i somehow limit is to choose like where there's more than one word? And more than one character?

Again, thanks a lot, i'll try to understand how it all works!

The expression is looking for (in order):
(

a optional space (the * says 0 or more)
Upper case letters (The case sensitivity affects this)

)
Repeat the pattern 1,to many times
So make 2 changes

<p class=".+">(\s*[A-Z][A-Z]){2,}</p>

It requires at least 2 consecutive words (with optional leading space)
But this has the bad effect of missing ANY 1 letter word .
You might run this one first, the run the original on MANUALLY as the number of hits should be greatly reduced.

BTW I ASSUME, you are using the Editor, not trying to do this as part of a conversion

[nbveh]

Originally Posted by theducks

BTW I ASSUME, you are using the Editor, not trying to do this as part of a conversion

Hehe, that's exactly what i was doing but i was wondering how to have more control over what's getting replaced and what not, i'll try the editor!

thanks a lot!