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eschwartz · 10-23-2014, 09:02 PM

lookarounds do not advance the search

very rudimentary mistake, sorry. (lookarounds are very fun to me but they also bend my head in knots.)

And this could be done a different way... if only lookbehind allowed variable-length strings. Fortunately, you can use the curly-bracket repeater for a finite variable-length string, but only in http://calibre-ebook.com's editor.

Code:

(?<=>[^<]{,99999})[a-zA-Z]\.[a-zA-Z]

Sigil doesn't use python's regex engine, so this doesn't work.

In Sigil, you can use:

Code:

(>[^<]*?)[a-zA-Z]\.[a-zA-Z]

And it will also capture the part from the preceding tag. However, it is captured and you can replace with "\1" followed by the replacement for the "x.y".

10-23-2014, 09:02 PM	#4
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	lookarounds do not advance the search very rudimentary mistake, sorry. (lookarounds are very fun to me but they also bend my head in knots.) And this could be done a different way... if only lookbehind allowed variable-length strings. Fortunately, you can use the curly-bracket repeater for a finite variable-length string, but only in http://calibre-ebook.com's editor. Code: (?<=>[^<]{,99999})[a-zA-Z]\.[a-zA-Z] Sigil doesn't use python's regex engine, so this doesn't work. In Sigil, you can use: Code: (>[^<]*?)[a-zA-Z]\.[a-zA-Z] And it will also capture the part from the preceding tag. However, it is captured and you can replace with "\1" followed by the replacement for the "x.y".