Find/Replace Won't Find

Rand Brittain · 09-20-2011, 01:03 PM

Even using 0.4.2, I'm still having trouble getting Sigil's find/replace function to work properly, especially when I'm using emdashes and the like. When trying to replace space-ndash-space with a single mdash, Sigil announces that it's found 0, even when I highlight the ndashes for it to be helpful and use Ctrl-H. This happens on Mac and Linux both.

What's up with that?

Rand Brittain · 09-20-2011, 11:32 PM

On further experimentation, an actual emdash can be found, but — can't, even in Code View.

user_none · 09-21-2011, 06:59 AM

Book view should show and match the actual unicode character. Code view should be translating em and en dashes to the entity (&...; ).

LaoTseu · 09-21-2011, 07:19 AM

When use use a &nnnn; character in Sigil, it get transformed into the actual unicode character so you no longer can search for the string "&nnn;". What I do to work around this is to copy the character I want to search for into the search popup in order to build my search expression.

The regular expression search use Qt’s QRegExp. There must be a syntax in there to specify unicode character using their number but I don't know the syntax to do this.

Rand Brittain · 09-23-2011, 02:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by user_none

Book view should show and match the actual unicode character. Code view should be translating em and en dashes to the entity (&...; ).

This seems to be so, but find/replace recognizes only the character and not the entity for me.

user_none · 09-23-2011, 02:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rand Brittain

This seems to be so, but find/replace recognizes only the character and not the entity for me.

To be clear, you see — in code view but it is matching the actual character?

Rand Brittain · 09-23-2011, 08:29 PM

Yes, I see — when I'm in Code View and — when I'm in Book View.

But in Code View I try to do a Find/Replace looking for "—" and it tells me it found 0 instances. Trying to find "—" works.

DoctorOhh · 09-24-2011, 04:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rand Brittain

Yes, I see — when I'm in Code View and — when I'm in Book View.

But in Code View I try to do a Find/Replace looking for "—" and it tells me it found 0 instances. Trying to find "—" works.

On occasion when my search says 0 and I know there are more, I change search mode from Regular Expression to Normal or vice-a-versa.

09-20-2011, 01:03 PM	#1
Rand Brittain Bookmaker Posts: 427 Karma: 2143650 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Cybook Opus	Find/Replace Won't Find Even using 0.4.2, I'm still having trouble getting Sigil's find/replace function to work properly, especially when I'm using emdashes and the like. When trying to replace space-ndash-space with a single mdash, Sigil announces that it's found 0, even when I highlight the ndashes for it to be helpful and use Ctrl-H. This happens on Mac and Linux both. What's up with that?

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09-20-2011, 11:32 PM	#2
Rand Brittain Bookmaker Posts: 427 Karma: 2143650 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Cybook Opus	On further experimentation, an actual emdash can be found, but — can't, even in Code View.

09-21-2011, 06:59 AM	#3
user_none Sigil & calibre developer Posts: 2,487 Karma: 1063785 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida, USA Device: Nook STR	Book view should show and match the actual unicode character. Code view should be translating em and en dashes to the entity (&...; ).

09-21-2011, 07:19 AM	#4
LaoTseu Member Posts: 20 Karma: 12 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: Kindke	When use use a &nnnn; character in Sigil, it get transformed into the actual unicode character so you no longer can search for the string "&nnn;". What I do to work around this is to copy the character I want to search for into the search popup in order to build my search expression. The regular expression search use Qt’s QRegExp. There must be a syntax in there to specify unicode character using their number but I don't know the syntax to do this.

09-23-2011, 08:29 PM	#7
Rand Brittain Bookmaker Posts: 427 Karma: 2143650 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Cybook Opus	Yes, I see — when I'm in Code View and — when I'm in Book View. But in Code View I try to do a Find/Replace looking for "—" and it tells me it found 0 instances. Trying to find "—" works.