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Old 03-24-2012, 09:35 PM   #23
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Hi

I am no expert at all so forgive me. I still have in my notebook a Regex that Zelda of world fame gave me a long time ago:
<span.sgc-5>([\w\s]*\w)</span>

I need to add a span tag to a span tag (that is to make a double span) without touching or removing the capital letter enclosed in the span. It's to make a box for drop-caps.

To make myself understood, I need to search and replace using Sigil, in code view, for all html files:
search
<span class="lettrine2">X</span>
replace
<span class="lettrine1"><span class="lettrine2">X</span></span>

X of course can be any letter from A to Z (capital letters only)
I had no success with the above Regex. Has anybody a solution for it?

I guess only \w would be needed since there is no space.

Last edited by roger64; 03-24-2012 at 09:44 PM.
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