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Originally Posted by mrmikel

I use h3 for headers for chapters. I would like to be able to make an id using regex.

I would like to take the next 5-7 characters out of the heading following <h3> and make it <h3 id="next5characters">. I suppose I could rename all the chapters so I could make an HTML TOC more easily, but this seems less work, if it can be made to work.

Thanks.

Code fragment:

(\S){2,5}

I chose the range: 2 thru 5 of not whitespace

You would need to do the rest