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dwlamb · 05-01-2013, 01:51 PM

I am undertaking a conversion from an export of an odt file and wish to do a regular expression search and replace of strings of words individually italicised instead of the entire phrase.

I have

Code:

<i>something</i> <i>like</i> <i>this</i>

and want

<i>something like this</i>

I came up with this

Code:

<i>(.*)</i>\s<i>(.*)</i>\s

but at times it is too greedy, trapping

Code:

<i>something</i> <i>like</i> <i>this</i> blah blah. More words and then <i>another</i> <i>string</i> <i>in</i> <i>italics</i>

Any ideas would be most welcome for how to write the search string and not trap a large block in between phrases

05-01-2013, 01:51 PM	#1
dwlamb Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2013 Device: Android Smartphone	search and replace on phrase I am undertaking a conversion from an export of an odt file and wish to do a regular expression search and replace of strings of words individually italicised instead of the entire phrase. I have Code: <i>something</i> <i>like</i> <i>this</i> and want <i>something like this</i> I came up with this Code: <i>(.)</i>\s<i>(.)</i>\s but at times it is too greedy, trapping Code: <i>something</i> <i>like</i> <i>this</i> blah blah. More words and then <i>another</i> <i>string</i> <i>in</i> <i>italics</i> Any ideas would be most welcome for how to write the search string and not trap a large block in between phrases Last edited by dwlamb; 05-01-2013 at 02:12 PM. Reason: clarity