Regex Problem / Line that does't end with .

mcam77 · 03-20-2013, 07:21 AM

Hello,

I am tryimg to match a string (with regex and sigil) that doesn't ends with .

Tried 1h and googeling.

Thanks

Martin

Tex2002ans · 03-20-2013, 02:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mcam77

I am tryimg to match a string (with regex and sigil) that doesn't ends with .

It would be helpful if you could give examples of sentences you are trying to match.

theducks · 03-20-2013, 08:31 PM

Sigil 7 has a saved search: Join paragraphs that look for 'paragraphs that end with a letter or comma (not a period).
Does not find all the other sometimes valid cases. For those, you need to carefully craft your Search and step through, skipping (find) or replace+find Never Replace All

with the others

mcam77 · 03-24-2013, 02:29 PM

sry for late reply!

I am usig sigil 0.6.2 cause sigil 0.7.1 will start for a few counts, and then refuses to start(When starting it nothing happens, found a lot of stuff for linux but nothing for windows) maybe someone know where the problem is.

back to the topic

if have paragraphs like

blah some words 

next words and so on.

and i want

blah some words next words and so on.

regards and thx for help

theducks · 03-24-2013, 04:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mcam77

sry for late reply!

I am usig sigil 0.6.2 cause sigil 0.7.1 will start for a few counts, and then refuses to start(When starting it nothing happens, found a lot of stuff for linux but nothing for windows) maybe someone know where the problem is.

back to the topic

if have paragraphs like

blah some words 

next words and so on.

and i want

blah some words next words and so on.

regards and thx for help

Code:

(?sm)([a-z,]) </p>\s+<p>

replace: <space here>\1

do note: your example has a trailing space (the capture discards it), the replace inserts this.
This S&R does not (deliberately) include a trailing hyphen/mdash you need to review each of those as join candidates

Tex2002ans · 03-24-2013, 05:27 PM

I answered this same exact situation last month in this topic (with the two regular expressions I use to clean this):

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...89#post2446589

varlog · 03-25-2013, 06:38 PM

For me regex solution was not really comfortable enough. As I usually start cleaning with a pure text I thought I'll do something really nice and wrote this small peace:

Code:

/*
 stripLF.c - remove false line breaks 
 compile with: cc stripLF.c -o stripLF
 usage:
          stripLF -h 
          stripLF [-C][-p][-H] < file.in > file.out
          cat file.in | stripLF [-C][-p][-H] >file.out
 options:
    -h: print help text and exit
    -C: line break before [C]apitals is legitimate too (for poetry)
    -p: change line breaks into </p> LF <p>  
    -H: change text into bare html page       
    
 removes all carridge returns
 removes all line breaks which are not 
 preceded by . _ ! ? * ' "]> other another line break or followed by capital letter: option -C
 removes multiple spaces  
   (c)varlog 2013
   LICENSE: FREE FOR ALL
   
*/

#include <stdio.h> 
#define LF 0x0A
#define CR 0x0D
#define SPACE 0x20
#define SINGLE_QUOTE 0x27
#define DOPPEL_QUOTE 0x22

#define VERSION 1.02

void usage(){
 printf("\n**********************************************************\n");
 printf("stripLF: remove false line breaks \n");
 printf("usage: \n");
 printf("stripLF [-h] \n");
 printf("stripLF [-C] [-p] [-H] < file.in > file.out \n");
 printf("cat file.in |stripLF [-C] [-p] [-H] > file.out \n");
 printf("options:\n");
 printf("-h: print this help text and exit\n");
 printf("-C: line break before [C]apitals is legitimate too\n");
 printf("-p: change line breaks into </p> LF <p>\n");
 printf("-H: add <html><body>......</body></html> tokens, implies -p \n");
 printf("v %.2f 2013 (c) varlog\n",VERSION);
 printf("***********************************************************\n");
}

main(int argc, char **argv)
{

int ch,pch=LF,nch=0;
int i;
int Cflag=0;
int Hflag=0;
int pflag=0;
int eflag=0;
 
 if(argc>1){
  for(i=1 ;i<argc; i++){
   if(argv[i][0]=='-') {
   
    switch (argv[i][1]){
     case 'C':
      Cflag=1; //capitals
      break;
     case 'p':   // LF --> </p><p>
      pflag=1;
      break;
     case 'h':   // help
      usage();
      eflag=1;
      break;
     case 'H':  //-->html
      Hflag=1;
      pflag=1;
      break;
     default:
      break;
    }   
   }  
  }
 }
  if(Hflag) printf("<html>\n<body>\n");
  if(pflag) printf("<p>");
      while(!eflag)
  {
   ch = getchar();
   if(ch==EOF) break;
   if(ch==SPACE && pch==SPACE) { 
    ; //remove space if more than one by ignoring it
   }else{
    if(ch!=LF && ch!=CR) {
    putchar(ch);  //just next letter
    }else {   
     if(ch==CR){ 
      ch=pch; //remove CR by ignoring it 
     }else {      
      while((nch=getchar())==SPACE); //get next char ignoring SPACE
      if(nch==EOF)
      {
       putchar(ch);
       break;      
      }        
      if(  // it is line break!
       pch==']'||
       pch=='>'||
       pch=='*'||
       pch=='_'||
       pch=='.'||
       pch=='!'||
       pch=='?'||
       pch==SINGLE_QUOTE|| 
       pch==DOPPEL_QUOTE||
       pch==LF||
       nch==LF||
       (Cflag==1 && nch>=0x40 && nch<=0x5A)  //capitals and @      
       )  { 
        if(pflag) printf("</p>");     
        putchar(ch);
        if(pflag) printf("<p>");
        putchar(nch);
        ch=nch;
       }
        else {  //phony line break
         putchar(SPACE); //change LF into space                
         putchar(nch);
         ch=nch;
         }
       }      
     }
     pch=ch;  
   }
  } //end while
  if(pflag) printf("</p>");
  if(Hflag) printf("\n</body>\n</html>");
}

of course it is not really nice and needs manual correction in the end

- but it works for me

.

03-20-2013, 07:21 AM	#1
mcam77 Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2013 Device: kobo touch	Regex Problem / Line that does't end with .</p> Hello, I am tryimg to match a string (with regex and sigil) that doesn't ends with .</p> Tried 1h and googeling. Thanks Martin

03-24-2013, 02:29 PM	#4
mcam77 Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2013 Device: kobo touch	sry for late reply! I am usig sigil 0.6.2 cause sigil 0.7.1 will start for a few counts, and then refuses to start(When starting it nothing happens, found a lot of stuff for linux but nothing for windows) maybe someone know where the problem is. back to the topic if have paragraphs like <p>blah some words </p> <p>next words and so on.</p> and i want <p>blah some words next words and so on.</p> regards and thx for help

03-24-2013, 05:27 PM	#6
Tex2002ans Wizard Posts: 2,306 Karma: 13057279 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Kobo Forma, Nook	I answered this same exact situation last month in this topic (with the two regular expressions I use to clean this): https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...89#post2446589 Last edited by Tex2002ans; 03-24-2013 at 07:13 PM.

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theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,240 Karma: 61360164 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Sigil 7 has a saved search: Join paragraphs that look for 'paragraphs that end with a letter or comma (not a period). Does not find all the other sometimes valid cases. For those, you need to carefully craft your Search and step through, skipping (find) or replace+find Never Replace All with the others