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Originally Posted by signum
If nested spans are a possibility, I like to use a search pattern similar to post #2, except I replace the stuff inside the parentheses with ([^<]*). This says to match any string of characters up to, but not including, a less than sign. If the immediately following characters are not </span>, the entire pattern fails and no replacement is done.Otherwise, the replacement stays the same. In my experience, this leaves only a handful of paragraphs to be dealt with in another way, often by hand.
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That is why I prefer using a negative lookahead -- it catches that too.
