help removing nested blockquotes please

[cybmole]

I have not mastered how to do multi-line regex yet with the current engine.

I want to strip all but one layer of all blockquote nestings e.g,
go from 2 or more level deep like this
<blockquote class="a">
<blockquote class="a">
<blockquote class="a">
<p class="text">some text here</p>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>

and reduce it to
<blockquote class="a">
<p class="text">some text here</p>
</blockquote>

i figure that the regex only needs to shrink 2 layers to 1, then if it is run multiple times it will progressively strip layers until only single layers remain.
assume also that I can by inspection insert the appropriate class names into the regex

I tried find
<blockquote class="calibre11">\s*<blockquote class="calibre11">(.*)</blockquote>\s*</blockquote>
with a suitable replace all, but it did not fully automate.( it seemed to only do one instance, evenwhen I said replace all) ; also I was not sure if I needed to tick any options e.g. Dotall

[theducks]

Originally Posted by cybmole

I have not mastered how to do multi-line regex yet with the current engine.

I want to strip all but one layer of all blockquote nestings e.g,
go from 2 or more level deep like this
<blockquote class="a">
<blockquote class="a">
<blockquote class="a">
<p class="text">some text here</p>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>

and reduce it to
<blockquote class="a">
<p class="text">some text here</p>
</blockquote>

i figure that the regex only needs to shrink 2 layers to 1, then if it is run multiple times it will progressively strip layers until only single layers remain.
assume also that I can by inspection insert the appropriate class names into the regex

I tried find
<blockquote class="calibre11">\s*<blockquote class="calibre11">(.*)</blockquote>\s*</blockquote>
with a suitable replace all, but it did not fully automate.( it seemed to only do one instance, evenwhen I said replace all) ; also I was not sure if I needed to tick any options e.g. Dotall

I got in the habit of starting with: (?sm)

(?sm)(?<blockquote class="a">\s+){2,}(.+?)(?</blockquote>\s+){2,}

replace is \2 <====

I only remove Nested BQ's the {2,}

[cybmole]

OK - so the {2,} says to only match 2 or more occurrences.

what does the initial (?sm) do , please.

if I plan on keeping one level of block quote, that needs to be in the replace also , I assume,

just replace \2 will remove all the blockquotes & leave only the text

[theducks]

Originally Posted by cybmole

OK - so the {2,} says to only match 2 or more occurrences.

what does the initial (?sm) do , please.

if I plan on keeping one level of block quote, that needs to be in the replace also , I assume,

just replace \2 will remove all the blockquotes & leave only the text

the (?sm) is a control
m on multilines
s treat as a single line

the \2 is the second capture (.+?), so surround it with a BQ set in the replace