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Originally Posted by ElMiko

So I've now run into this problem twice. Hopefully, the reg-ex wizards among you will have a head-slappingly simple solution to my problem.

First Case
Every new paragraph is formatted as:

<p class="calibre2"><span class="none">A Bunch of Text</span></p>

I want to change the "p class" to "calibre5" for Chapter headings only, which are currently formatted like this (1., 2., 3., ..., 21., 22., etc):

<p class="calibre2"><span class="none">1.</span></p>

Finding all the instances with reg-ex is easy enough by search for:

<p class="calibre2"><span class="none">([0-9]+\.)</span></p>

But that's as far as I can get. Replacing the above with:

Add the Red

<p class="calibre5"><span class="none">\1</span></p>

Now make the replace look like the above:
The red \1 is the found value inside the ( ) above

changes the number to "[0-9]+\."!

Second Case
In another book, there are random paragraph breaks mid-sentence.
My solution to that would be to find all the new paragraphs that begin with a lower-case letter, and replace all the code between it and the previous paragraph. Again, finding the instances via reg-ex proved pretty intuitive:

</p>[\s]+<p class="calibre2">([a-z])

But again, i just can't figure out how to alter the code (in this case replacing it with a blank space) without altering the first letter of the first word in that paragraph.
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the replace is: (space)\1

Looking over what I've written, I am humbled by how utterly inarticulate this all sounds, but if someone understands my gibberish, I'd be most grateful for any light you could shine on my problem.