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enuddleyarbl · 09-10-2022, 09:09 PM

I guess it's not a needful thing, but in case some other person wants to do something similar, I'm starting to look at this from a different direction. Instead of working with the <i>/</i> pair and the text in between, I've decided to look for the whitespace between adjacent italicized paragraphs:

Code:

find: </i>([\.\?]?</p>\s+?<p[^>]*>)<i>
replace: \1

I'm assuming if there are consecutive entire paragraphs italicized, there's probably some kind of semantic block involved. Once I find the start of such a block, I can remove the intervening </i> and <i> pairs with "Replace and Find" and leave only the single starting and ending pair. I can probably work with that more easily.

09-10-2022, 09:09 PM	#10
enuddleyarbl Guru Posts: 781 Karma: 1538394 Join Date: Sep 2013 Device: Kobo Sage	I guess it's not a needful thing, but in case some other person wants to do something similar, I'm starting to look at this from a different direction. Instead of working with the <i>/</i> pair and the text in between, I've decided to look for the whitespace between adjacent italicized paragraphs: Code: find: </i>([\.\?]?</p>\s+?<p[^>]>)<i> replace: \1 I'm assuming if there are consecutive entire paragraphs italicized, there's probably some kind of semantic block involved. Once I find the start of such a block, I can remove the intervening </i> and <i> pairs with "Replace and Find" and leave only the single starting and ending pair. I can probably work with that more easily. Last edited by enuddleyarbl; 09-11-2022 at 06:35 PM. Reason: initial code didn't handle classless paragraphs & punctuation*