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hirak99 · 11-28-2011, 02:05 AM

Objective

I have a .txt book from project Gutenberg, where an example chapter header would be -

Code:

[2]

THIEVES BREAK IN AND STEAL

I want to get it in the form -

Code:

<h2>2. THIEVES BREAK IN AND STEAL</h2>

Issue 1
When I try the regex search, it shows as

Code:

<p>[2]</p>
<h2>THIEVES BREAK IN AND STEAL</h2>

Is this expected? I'm hundred percent sure I'm selecting the .txt file. It would be fine if the regex worked properly on this, but it's not working as stated below -

Issue 2
When I use the following regex -

Code:

(?m)<p>\[([\d]*?)\]</p>\s+<h2>.*?</h2>

it matches the titles, but it does not do anything when I actually try to convert!

How can I get the conversion?

Addendum
The book on which I'm trying to operate is the text version here -
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6984

11-28-2011, 02:05 AM	#1
hirak99 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: Galaxy S2	Regex works in preview, but not while conversion! Objective I have a .txt book from project Gutenberg, where an example chapter header would be - Code: [2] THIEVES BREAK IN AND STEAL I want to get it in the form - Code: <h2>2. THIEVES BREAK IN AND STEAL</h2> Issue 1 When I try the regex search, it shows as Code: <p>[2]</p> <h2>THIEVES BREAK IN AND STEAL</h2> Is this expected? I'm hundred percent sure I'm selecting the .txt file. It would be fine if the regex worked properly on this, but it's not working as stated below - Issue 2 When I use the following regex - Code: (?m)<p>\[([\d]?)\]</p>\s+<h2>.?</h2> it matches the titles, but it does not do anything when I actually try to convert! How can I get the conversion? Addendum The book on which I'm trying to operate is the text version here - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6984