Regex examples

[KevinH]

You can change the amount of context provided, but if you walk through things one by one anyway, you can easily pick out which instances to skip, and even edit the text directly to handle all cases you want. So I guess I do not understand the problem you are trying to solve if you already plan to walk things manually.

[ElMiko]

Originally Posted by KevinH

You can change the amount of context provided, but if you walk through things one by one anyway, you can easily pick out which instances to skip, and even edit the text directly to handle all cases you want. So I guess I do not understand the problem you are trying to solve if you already plan to walk things manually.

The issue is the replacement value. I'm not trying to manually type in a different replacement value for each match. I just want to insert an apostrophe, be it in a blank space, or before an "s", or a "t", or an "ll", or am "re".

[Torgo]

I'm using Sigil 2.6.0 and trying to match attributes like: epub:type="frontmatter titlepage" (where the value is variable.)

I expected

epub:type="[^"]*"

to match it, but it does not.

From what I can tell from the user guide, skimming this thread, and trying an online expression tester, it should work. What am I missing?

[Karellen]

Try... epub:type=".*?"

Do you need to capture and reuse the value? If yes, surround with brackets (.*?)

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by Torgo

I expected

epub:type="[^"]*"

to match it, but it does not.

Since the regex definitely works, you might have forgotten to select Regex mode in Sigil or there are one or more spaces before and after the equal sign.
Try

epub:type\s*=\s*"[^"]*"

[Torgo]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

Since the regex definitely works, you might have forgotten to select Regex mode in Sigil

That was it. Thanks!

I was using regex earlier, and I'm not sure how I switched that off.