[philja]

I'm always interested in expanding my use of regex so I tried both Doitsu's test case and Kevin's test case and couldn't get either to work in Sigil 2.4.2 on my MacBook.

Doitsu's original Find

(?<!”\s\w+\s)said\. “

and

Kevin's variation :

(?<!”\s\w{1,6}\s)said\. “

both give 'Invalid Regex: offset:0' when I hover on them as does Kevin's other test case

(?<=0x{1,6})y

Presumably, these should work in 2.4.2 on Mac?

Edit:
I must be seriously missing something. I can't get any of these 3 regex Finds to work on my linux or W10 boxes either.

Hovering the cursor over the find term gives exactly the same message each time: 'Invalid Regex: offset:0' which doesn't help me at all.

I can get both

(?<!"\sJack\s)said\. "   and   (?<!"\s\w{4}\s)said\. "

to work with Diatsu's test epub ie it ignores his first line and finds the other two. But as soon as I mess around trying to use a range {1,6} or similar, the regex is described as invalid.