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Vroni · 12-13-2018, 06:19 AM

Depends. It can be impossible or very easy. If its always the word CHAPTER, tats easy, and i guess you woudn't have asked

If all letters are capital you can just search for ([A-Z])_ and reaplce it with \1. The probality that a capital letter is followed by a blank is low, but not 0. So yo have to go through the text one at a time to make a decision.

In any other case i would assume its not possible as Regex in sigil cant be limited to work only inside a specific element (AFAIR Calibre can do that) So you are catching too many wrong positives if your heading is mixed-case.

12-13-2018, 06:19 AM	#2
Vroni Banned Posts: 168 Karma: 10010 Join Date: Oct 2018 Device: Tolino/PRS 650/Tablet	Depends. It can be impossible or very easy. If its always the word CHAPTER, tats easy, and i guess you woudn't have asked If all letters are capital you can just search for ([A-Z])_ and reaplce it with \1. The probality that a capital letter is followed by a blank is low, but not 0. So yo have to go through the text one at a time to make a decision. In any other case i would assume its not possible as Regex in sigil cant be limited to work only inside a specific element (AFAIR Calibre can do that) So you are catching too many wrong positives if your heading is mixed-case.