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Capricorn · 01-18-2012, 05:13 PM

Thank you for that info.

I had a read through manichean's tutorial. That was very useful. Then I went on to the python docs and got utterly lost. It seems like a complete programming language.
As my purpose is to edit some epub books, and not programming, I decided there had to be a better way. Hence I searched on the internet for a regex generator.

I did find some:

1. regexbuddy and regexmagic from the company Just Great Software

2. expresso from ultrapico

As expresso was free, I decided to go for that one.

Then I built the following regex, using expresso, for find and replace

find: </p>[\s]+<p class="calibre2">
replace: \s

When I executed this in sigil, it would find the string in my codeview file, but it did NOT replace it, when I pushed the single replace arrow. If I pushed the replace all button, it worked, but it put in the string \s instead of a blank space.
If I used a blank space in the replace field, again, it did nothing on single replace, but on replace all button, it executed properly with a blank space.

What am I doing wrong?

01-18-2012, 05:13 PM	#4
Capricorn Belgian Pommes Frites Posts: 122 Karma: 35038 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: Pocketbook Touch HD	Thank you for that info. I had a read through manichean's tutorial. That was very useful. Then I went on to the python docs and got utterly lost. It seems like a complete programming language. As my purpose is to edit some epub books, and not programming, I decided there had to be a better way. Hence I searched on the internet for a regex generator. I did find some: 1. regexbuddy and regexmagic from the company Just Great Software 2. expresso from ultrapico As expresso was free, I decided to go for that one. Then I built the following regex, using expresso, for find and replace find: </p>[\s]+<p class="calibre2"> replace: \s When I executed this in sigil, it would find the string in my codeview file, but it did NOT replace it, when I pushed the single replace arrow. If I pushed the replace all button, it worked, but it put in the string \s instead of a blank space. If I used a blank space in the replace field, again, it did nothing on single replace, but on replace all button, it executed properly with a blank space. What am I doing wrong?