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rosshalde · 10-23-2014, 02:42 PM

I found that Sigil can use Regex in it find/replace function.
I am looking to find all examples of x.x (where x is any letter with a period in between)
Essentially, many words like book.case or back.pack that are compound words are displayed in my file as show above.
I see that I can find all examples of this by using the code
[a-z]\.[a-z]
which is great, but it is also finding all examples in the actual code, such as www.xxxx
Is there a way to tell Sigil to only look to find my search in the body of the text rather than in the code?
If so, that would be excellent and fix a big problem for me.

10-23-2014, 02:42 PM	#1
rosshalde Zealot Posts: 142 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2014 Device: nook	Regex questions (body of text only?) I found that Sigil can use Regex in it find/replace function. I am looking to find all examples of x.x (where x is any letter with a period in between) Essentially, many words like book.case or back.pack that are compound words are displayed in my file as show above. I see that I can find all examples of this by using the code [a-z]\.[a-z] which is great, but it is also finding all examples in the actual code, such as www.xxxx Is there a way to tell Sigil to only look to find my search in the body of the text rather than in the code? If so, that would be excellent and fix a big problem for me.