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Old 07-12-2013, 08:54 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by rolgiati View Post
My thanks for the suggestions;
I finally got the result by replacing <a class="pcalibre" href.*?> with nothing, then </a> with nothing.
did not work, it put /1 in place of the link text !
Possibly the find and replace does not understand a regex in the replacement text.
If \1 gets put into the Text, you did not have any 'capture area' defined . the (.+?) in the original suggestion, which would leave the 'visible text' of the link still in place.
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 <a class="pcalibre" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=98PYVYGFCIIC&amp;pg=PA54&amp;lpg=PA54&amp ;dq=dimethylcadmium&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=oK-NDQqout&amp;sig=wDDF0qwknz3G-twxMl_6B8Di5lk&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=IhSDUdyMD NW-4AO51oCYAw&amp;ved=0CDMQ6AEwATgU#v=onepage&amp;q=d imethylcadmium&amp;f=false">extremely tedious work</a>,
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extremely tedious work
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