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reinsley · 02-25-2024, 12:13 PM

Hello pdurrant and lomkiri,

Thank you for your help.

I appreciate your good tutorial with negative lookbehind that works fine to find space«space : (?<!">\s—\s«\s.+?)(\.\s«\s), great help as it's a bit difficult to enter the site.

In my sentences I have two space«space : One at the begining of the sentence, one later at any place. It's the dialogue of a same caracter in two sentences. « Blahblah said the man. « Blahblah again.

The first occurence has two html marks before  space«space to change in  — space«space
The second space«space has no html mark, just a dotspace«space

Its an opening dialogue dash for one character. I want to had an em dash ( &#x2014 ) to the first occurence space«space. I have got it with regex in a first pass. No problem.

A typical dialogue sentence after the first regex pass is  — « There is a long sentence ending with a comma », said the man.space«spaceThen a second part of the blahblah dotspace» 
This is the second . « (dotspace«space) I don't want to grab by regex if a dash is before at the beginning.

How to find : IF NO EM DASH at the beginning of the sentence with a long lenght variable text, said the man AND dot NO EM DASH space«space ie (dotspace«space) Second part of the blahblah.dotspace»spec 

Then I will insert a CR (Carriage Return).

I stubbornly tried to find the solution with your tutorial but I'm stuck, a kind of lark's mirror. Sorry for my delayed answer.

The bold and increased size are for easy reading, no bad mood on my side.

Best regards.

02-25-2024, 12:13 PM	#4
reinsley Connoisseur Posts: 65 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: France Device: Kindle PaperWhite	Hello pdurrant and lomkiri, Thank you for your help. I appreciate your good tutorial with negative lookbehind that works fine to find space«space : (?<!">\s—\s«\s.+?)(\.\s«\s), great help as it's a bit difficult to enter the site. In my sentences I have two space«space : One at the begining of the sentence, one later at any place. It's the dialogue of a same caracter in two sentences. « Blahblah said the man. « Blahblah again. The first occurence has two html marks before <p class="calibre8"> <span class="calibre3"> space«space to change in <p class="calibre8"> <span class="calibre3"> — space«space The second space«space has no html mark, just a dotspace«space Its an opening dialogue dash for one character. I want to had an em dash ( &#x2014 ) to the first occurence <p class="calibre8"> <span class="calibre3"> space«space. I have got it with regex in a first pass. No problem. A typical dialogue sentence after the first regex pass is <p class="calibre8"> <span class="calibre3"> — « There is a long sentence ending with a comma », said the man.space«spaceThen a second part of the blahblah dotspace»</span> </p> This is the second . « (dotspace«space) I don't want to grab by regex if a dash is before at the beginning. How to find : IF <p class="calibre8"> <span class="calibre3"> NO EM DASH at the beginning of the sentence with a long lenght variable text, said the man AND dot NO EM DASH space«space ie (dotspace«space) Second part of the blahblah.dotspace»spec</span> </p> Then I will insert a CR (Carriage Return). I stubbornly tried to find the solution with your tutorial but I'm stuck, a kind of lark's mirror. Sorry for my delayed answer. The bold and increased size are for easy reading, no bad mood on my side. Best regards.