Quote:
Originally Posted by Jellby
So you want something like this?
Code:
<span class="italics">[^<]*\s.*</span>
It might not be the right regex dialect, but [^<] is intended to mean "any character not <". That won't match instances where there is something nested in the <span> before the first space, but those should be rare, and can be looked for afterwards. |
That seems to be the ticket. Thanks!
I had a mishap where an ill-thought-out global replace (because of nested spans and greedy expressions) left me with a boatload of long, incorrectly italicized passages. And it got saved before I caught it. I could've backed up a few revisions and started over, but I didn't
want to ( maybe not always straight, but ever forward
).
Anyway, since I
know the one word occurrences aren't mistakes, I can safely skip those. And in this particular document... that little regex expression knocks the number of occurrences I have to manually proof against the original text from 700+ down to around 150.
Thanks again!