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cybmole · 01-29-2013, 12:23 PM

i am seeing some unexplained behaviour with replaceall regex in that it sometimes has to be run twice to truly replace all.
I isolate a phrase & set up the find regex with a blank replace.

then I click replace all & it does one or two replacements, but when I click it again, it does a whole lot more.

I can't puzzle out why it needs to run twice.

e.g. most my recent example - removing unwanted anchors from chapter starts..
I use find
<a class="calibre7" id="filepos\d+"></a>
+ replace all
(with nothing)

. expecting 29 hits , 1 per chapter, instead I got only 2 hits, followed by 27 hits at next attempt.

the open xhtml was 1st chapter.
mode regex, all hteml files - down + replace all. nothing else ticked.

any explanation as to why it needed to be run twice?

01-29-2013, 12:23 PM	#1
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	replace all has to be triggered twice i am seeing some unexplained behaviour with replaceall regex in that it sometimes has to be run twice to truly replace all. I isolate a phrase & set up the find regex with a blank replace. then I click replace all & it does one or two replacements, but when I click it again, it does a whole lot more. I can't puzzle out why it needs to run twice. e.g. most my recent example - removing unwanted anchors from chapter starts.. I use find <a class="calibre7" id="filepos\d+"></a> + replace all (with nothing) . expecting 29 hits , 1 per chapter, instead I got only 2 hits, followed by 27 hits at next attempt. the open xhtml was 1st chapter. mode regex, all hteml files - down + replace all. nothing else ticked. any explanation as to why it needed to be run twice?