Quote:
Originally Posted by phossler
I have a bunch of entries with a Hx followed by the rest of the chapter title in <p> tags
Code:
<h1>Chapter 1:*</h1>
<p>The Title</p>
What I'd like is
Code:
<h1>Chapter 1: The Title</h1>
My Find was *</h1>\s*<p>(.*?)</p>
My Replace was \1</h1>
but instead of just the text up to the first </p>, all the text is selected
What am I doing wrong? |
You're including the all of the <p> </p> in your find expression. That's why it's included: <p>(.*?)</p>
I'd suggest capturing the chapter number and the p contents with something like:
Code:
<h1>Chapter (\d+):</h1>\s+<p>([^>]*)</p>
Then replace with something like:
Code:
<h1>Chapter \1: \2</h1>
The * and + tokens in regex are for repetition (* is zero or more, and + is 1 or more). They
follow something that may have multiple occurrences. Unless you're actually looking to match an asterisk character (in which case it should be escaped: \*) there's no reason to start an expression with "*". There's no indication of what might be repeating.