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lomkiri · 11-02-2024, 10:00 AM

Code:

Find : </p>\s*<p>(\p{Ll}.*?</p>)
Replace : \x20\1
Mode : Regex
with "dot all" and "case sensitive" checked 
(\x20 is a space)

Note : it will merge only if the paragraph starts with a lower case letter. It won't if it starts with space or punctuation. If you want to give the possibility to have a space before the letter, it will give :

Code:

</p>\s*<p>(\s?\p{Ll}.*?</p>)

but you may have 2 spaces before the targeted word, which is not a problem because it won't be visible in the text (to avoid this, we could put a very simple regex-function instead of the "<space>\1" replace)

11-02-2024, 10:00 AM	#2
lomkiri Groupie Posts: 167 Karma: 1497966 Join Date: Jul 2021 Device: N/A	Code: Find : </p>\s<p>(\p{Ll}.?</p>) Replace : \x20\1 Mode : Regex with "dot all" and "case sensitive" checked (\x20 is a space) Note : it will merge only if the paragraph starts with a lower case letter. It won't if it starts with space or punctuation. If you want to give the possibility to have a space before the letter, it will give : Code: </p>\s<p>(\s?\p{Ll}.?</p>) but you may have 2 spaces before the targeted word, which is not a problem because it won't be visible in the text (to avoid this, we could put a very simple regex-function instead of the "<space>\1" replace) Last edited by lomkiri; 11-02-2024 at 04:28 PM.