Yet another regex question

[Jabby]

I want to find all instances of <p> followed by a lower case character. Testing just the first character.

Thanks - John

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Jabby

I want to find all instances of <p> followed by a lower case character. Testing just the first character.

Thanks - John

</p>\s+<p.+>([a-z])

Because you are probably trying to un-wrap

Replace:

 \1

<<leading space

[Serpentine]

Might be a bit overkill:

If you want to find paragraphs which might be incorrectly split, here's what I've come up with - it needs a little tweak sometimes, but generally rather good. I wouldn't recommend replacing everything, unless you grep first for results (think I have an alternative with span/[bsiu]'s ignored somewhere... mmm).

(?smi)(?<=[^[:punct:]])</p>\s*<p[^<>]*>(?=[\.-?])|</p>\s*<p[^<>]*>(?!\s*(<[sbui]>|[[:punct:]\s])+[[:upper:]])(?=[[:punct:]\s]+[[:lower:]])|</p>\s*<p[^<>]*>((?=[ \.>]{2,}([[:punct:]]|[[:lower:]]))|(?=[[:lower:]]))|(?<=,)</p>\s*<p[^<>]*>

Replace with a space character, else it will join the end words.

[Jabby]

Thanks ducks,

I still don't know what did but I ended up with a space, in the middle of a sentence, being replaced by </p><p> in a couple of dozen places in my document.

Anyway...... This is what did it.

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

How it knew to stop at one character, I don't know. Regex is an acquaintance and not a friend. Maybe one of these days?

Regards = John

[Serpentine]

(?s)</p>\s*<p\b[^<>]*>(?=[[:lower:]])

Replace with a space character, might be slightly better if you're trying to merge paragraphs - or just find them.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Jabby

Thanks ducks,

I still don't know what did but I ended up with a space, in the middle of a sentence, being replaced by </p><p> in a couple of dozen places in my document.

Anyway...... This is what did it.

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

How it knew to stop at one character, I don't know. Regex is an acquaintance and not a friend. Maybe one of these days?

Regards = John

[a-z] says match any Single character a thru z
[a-zI] says a thru z or I
It is all in the hyphen

[cybmole]

Originally Posted by Serpentine

Might be a bit overkill:

If you want to find paragraphs which might be incorrectly split, here's what I've come up with - it needs a little tweak sometimes, but generally rather good. I wouldn't recommend replacing everything, unless you grep first for results (think I have an alternative with span/[bsiu]'s ignored somewhere... mmm).

(?smi)(?<=[^[:punct:]])</p>\s*<p[^<>]*>(?=[\.-?])|</p>\s*<p[^<>]*>(?!\s*(<[sbui]>|[[:punct:]\s])+[[:upper:]])(?=[[:punct:]\s]+[[:lower:]])|</p>\s*<p[^<>]*>((?=[ \.>]{2,}([[:punct:]]|[[:lower:]]))|(?=[[:lower:]]))|(?<=,)</p>\s*<p[^<>]*>

Replace with a space character, else it will join the end words.

any chance of a breakdown / analysis of what that long line is doing please ?

[crutledge]

Originally Posted by Serpentine

Might be a bit overkill:

If you want to find paragraphs which might be incorrectly split, here's what I've come up with - it needs a little tweak sometimes, but generally rather good. I wouldn't recommend replacing everything, unless you grep first for results (think I have an alternative with span/[bsiu]'s ignored somewhere... mmm).

(?smi)(?<=[^[:punct:]])</p>\s*<p[^<>]*>(?=[\.-?])|</p>\s*<p[^<>]*>(?!\s*(<[sbui]>|[[:punct:]\s])+[[:upper:]])(?=[[:punct:]\s]+[[:lower:]])|</p>\s*<p[^<>]*>((?=[ \.>]{2,}([[:punct:]]|[[:lower:]]))|(?=[[:lower:]]))|(?<=,)</p>\s*<p[^<>]*>

Replace with a space character, else it will join the end words.

You, sir, have a strange and devious mind.

It works great!

[signum]

Originally Posted by Jabby

I want to find all instances of <p> followed by a lower case character. Testing just the first character.

Thanks - John

A simple, literal answer is

<p>[a-z]

Make sure you are in Code View and the search options Match Case and Minimal Matching are checked and that the search mode Wildcard is checked. The square brackets mean any single character in that range, i.e., a-z. Works for me and I use it a lot. You should probably also check for paragraphs ending in a lower case letter.

[a-z]</p>