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ghostyjack · 10-09-2012, 10:10 AM

I'm trying to change the formatting on a book I'm working on.

At the beginning of each chapter, there is a chapter number, followed by a heading that is unique to each chapter. Underneath the heading is the start of the actual text.

The problem I have is that the text currently begins with <p> and I want to change it to <p class="newscene2">.

As this book as over 300 chapters, I didn't want to have to manually change each one. So what I want to do is to be able to search for for both the heading and the next <p> irespective of the content of the heading line and then replace the <p> with my new tag, but leave the content between intact.

I've found that:

Code:

<p class="heading">.+</p>

  <p>

will locate each entry, but I can't fathom the replace command. I've tried:

Code:

<p class="heading">.+</p>

  <p class="newscene2">

but all it does is replace all the content with .+ and not leave all the text alone.

So what am I doing wrong?

10-09-2012, 10:10 AM	#1
ghostyjack Guru Posts: 718 Karma: 1085610 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Bristol, England Device: PRS-T1, 1825PT, Galaxy Tab, One X, TF700T, Aura HD, Nexus 7	Regex problem: Trying to replace surrounding text without effecting the middle I'm trying to change the formatting on a book I'm working on. At the beginning of each chapter, there is a chapter number, followed by a heading that is unique to each chapter. Underneath the heading is the start of the actual text. The problem I have is that the text currently begins with <p> and I want to change it to <p class="newscene2">. As this book as over 300 chapters, I didn't want to have to manually change each one. So what I want to do is to be able to search for for both the heading and the next <p> irespective of the content of the heading line and then replace the <p> with my new tag, but leave the content between intact. I've found that: Code: <p class="heading">.+</p> <p> will locate each entry, but I can't fathom the replace command. I've tried: Code: <p class="heading">.+</p> <p class="newscene2"> but all it does is replace all the content with .+ and not leave all the text alone. So what am I doing wrong?