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cybmole · 02-23-2012, 02:37 PM

due to a badly formatted book I was trying to constuct a regex which would find any <p......./p> section which occured immediately beofre a <div, in order to then tweak that found chunk.

but I could not do it.
a find expression like <p class "whatever">(.*)</p>?\s*<div is too greedy - it grabbed a whole load of paragraphs

i.e. from
<p para 1...
<p para 2..
...
<p para n..
< div....

the above regex grabs n paragraphs , is there a way to grab only the nth one , and replace it's CSS class

PS I am still using 0.42 regex

or could I use a .p+div class in CSS ?

02-23-2012, 02:37 PM	#1
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	regex puzzle: finding paragraph before... due to a badly formatted book I was trying to constuct a regex which would find any <p......./p> section which occured immediately beofre a <div, in order to then tweak that found chunk. but I could not do it. a find expression like <p class "whatever">(.)</p>?\s<div is too greedy - it grabbed a whole load of paragraphs i.e. from <p para 1... <p para 2.. ... <p para n.. < div.... the above regex grabs n paragraphs , is there a way to grab only the nth one , and replace it's CSS class PS I am still using 0.42 regex or could I use a .p+div class in CSS ? Last edited by cybmole; 02-23-2012 at 02:39 PM.