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enuddleyarbl · 01-26-2023, 02:05 PM

Another weird one. Sometimes, the Calibre Editor's Regex-Function mode of "Title-case text (ignore tags)" doesn't completely change the case of the text. I haven't been able to find a reason why. For instance, just now, I had it look for:

Code:

<h2>(.+?)</h2>

and it correctly found and highlighted:

Code:

<h2>Introduction: CARLA LEMARCHANT</h2>

When I told it to do the replacement, nothing changed. I backed the cursor off a bit, tried again, and got the same result. So, I switched the mode to "Lower-case text (ignore tags)", hit the Find and the Replace buttons and it correctly found and lower-cased the thing. I changed it back to Title-case and it now worked.

Then, I manually changed it back to its original, and Title-case didn't work again. The Lower-case function worked and then Title-case on that also worked. If I use the "Upper-case text (ignore tags)" mode and back to Title-case, that also works.

EDIT: I should have been more specific about "didn't work." The stuff before the colon (":") converts fine (even with more than one word). The stuff after the colon is where the problem always seems to happen.

01-26-2023, 02:05 PM	#1
enuddleyarbl Guru Posts: 782 Karma: 1538394 Join Date: Sep 2013 Device: Kobo Sage	Title-case text (ignore tags) Not Necessarily Working Another weird one. Sometimes, the Calibre Editor's Regex-Function mode of "Title-case text (ignore tags)" doesn't completely change the case of the text. I haven't been able to find a reason why. For instance, just now, I had it look for: Code: <h2>(.+?)</h2> and it correctly found and highlighted: Code: <h2>Introduction: CARLA LEMARCHANT</h2> When I told it to do the replacement, nothing changed. I backed the cursor off a bit, tried again, and got the same result. So, I switched the mode to "Lower-case text (ignore tags)", hit the Find and the Replace buttons and it correctly found and lower-cased the thing. I changed it back to Title-case and it now worked. Then, I manually changed it back to its original, and Title-case didn't work again. The Lower-case function worked and then Title-case on that also worked. If I use the "Upper-case text (ignore tags)" mode and back to Title-case, that also works. EDIT: I should have been more specific about "didn't work." The stuff before the colon (":") converts fine (even with more than one word). The stuff after the colon is where the problem always seems to happen. Last edited by enuddleyarbl; 01-26-2023 at 02:30 PM.