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Lonas · 07-21-2010, 05:11 AM

Hi all,

I don't know if I am just doing it wrong but it seems that Sigil currently does not support the selection/capturing of string tokens with a regex to use it later in the Replace/Find dialogue. Is that correct?

I tried the Perl syntax with $1, $2, ... and I also tried cap(1), cap(2), ... and capturedTexts()[1], capturedTexts()[2], ... as specified in the QRegExp documentation (QRegExp is obviously the regex implementation used by Sigil, look here for its documentation on capturing variables: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/3.3/qregexp.html#1-5).

This would be a very important feature for me as I commonly run across badly converted PDF outputs which need to be fixed.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

07-21-2010, 05:11 AM	#1
Lonas Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2010 Device: iPad	Regex capturing variables Hi all, I don't know if I am just doing it wrong but it seems that Sigil currently does not support the selection/capturing of string tokens with a regex to use it later in the Replace/Find dialogue. Is that correct? I tried the Perl syntax with $1, $2, ... and I also tried cap(1), cap(2), ... and capturedTexts()[1], capturedTexts()[2], ... as specified in the QRegExp documentation (QRegExp is obviously the regex implementation used by Sigil, look here for its documentation on capturing variables: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/3.3/qregexp.html#1-5). This would be a very important feature for me as I commonly run across badly converted PDF outputs which need to be fixed. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!