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CyanBC · 05-13-2013, 04:01 PM

I've tried all the regex patterns given so far. I've also tried fiddling with them a bit to see if there was small error for my application.

I've come to a new book which has an annoying issue. It creates a new paragraph between long quoted text, at times. Like this:

Code:

Jacob began to speak, "So we ran toward the still moving silhouette of the scarecrow. But we didn't find anything there.

When we came back the next day there was nothing."

I've been trying to build a regex code that looks for these errors by highlighting any quote that has stuff after it but no end quote.
Code wise it looks like this:

Code:

<p class="calibre2">At this point, James found himself shaking, "So we ran toward the still moving silhouette of the scarecrow. But we didn't find anything there.</p>

    <p class="calibre2">When we came back the next day there was nothing." And so on</p>

All my attempts generally fail to find anything. Or begin to highlighting the coding sections "calibre2"

05-13-2013, 04:01 PM	#7
CyanBC Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2013 Device: Kindle Touch	I've tried all the regex patterns given so far. I've also tried fiddling with them a bit to see if there was small error for my application. I've come to a new book which has an annoying issue. It creates a new paragraph between long quoted text, at times. Like this: Code: Jacob began to speak, "So we ran toward the still moving silhouette of the scarecrow. But we didn't find anything there. When we came back the next day there was nothing." I've been trying to build a regex code that looks for these errors by highlighting any quote that has stuff after it but no end quote. Code wise it looks like this: Code: <p class="calibre2">At this point, James found himself shaking, "So we ran toward the still moving silhouette of the scarecrow. But we didn't find anything there.</p> <p class="calibre2">When we came back the next day there was nothing." And so on</p> All my attempts generally fail to find anything. Or begin to highlighting the coding sections "calibre2"