Regex examples

[Steadyhands]

I'm looking to correct some scan errors for the letter I.

bla bla bla 1 don't want to, l went to the shop

but I don't want to match

Chapter 1 or Book 1 etc

I'm thinking that it needs to be a negative lookahead but can't get it right.

(?!(?i)(Chapter 1(\s?|<)|Part 1|Section 1|Book 1)) ([1|l])

Any suggestions?

[Turtle91]

This works:
"(?<!Chapter|Book|Part) ([1|l]) "
(without the quotes)

But you need to start the search at the beginning of the area...eg make sure the cursor isn't in the middle of the word "Chapter" or something.

[Steadyhands]

Thanks

[Steadyhands]

Here a regex I find useful for finding & correcting contractions that have spaces in them. Don't blast this with a replace all as it does match false positives where a word has been shortened to only a single letter.

Target text.

don‘ t
wasn ’t
Couldn’ t
I ‘m

False positive

Th’ lads ’re all
An’ let ’m
what ’m I going to do

Search \b(\s(‘|’)|(‘|’)\s)(d|m|s|t|ll|re|ve)\b(?!’)
Replace ’\4

[niijii]

How would I remove
<b>Page 3</b><br>
<hr/>
<a id="p4">

I have tried [0-9]+<b>Page 3</b><br>
<hr/>
<a id="[0-9]+">

I have read through the manual and viewed a video on youtube and I seem to be missing something when I try to out in pdf to mobi conversion... what am I doing wrong?

[DiapDealer]

I have tried [0-9]+<b>Page 3</b><br>
<hr/>
<a id="[0-9]+">

Something along the lines of this should produce better results. But please test well; I'm winging this fairly blind (and am guessing that you want to remove ALL page numbers encountered)

<b>Page \d+</b><br>
<hr/>
<a id="p\d+">

[niijii]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Something along the lines of this should produce better results. But please test well; I'm winging this fairly blind (and am guessing that you want to remove ALL page numbers encountered)

<b>Page \d+</b><br>
<hr/>
<a id="p\d+">

<br>
<b>Page 3</b><br>
<hr/>
<a id="p4"></a>

I couldn't get that to work and I am wondering if I am not posting all of it. The full thing is...

<br>
<b>Page 3</b><br>
<hr/>
<a id="p4"></a><b>Generated by ABC Amber LIT Conv<a href="http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html">erter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html</a></b><br>

I can remove the generated by abc part no problem and at times if I remove [hr/] helps... but it is the page numbers.

[niijii]

Originally Posted by niijii

<br>
<b>Page 3</b><br>
<hr/>
<a id="p4"></a>

I couldn't get that to work and I am wondering if I am not posting all of it. The full thing is...

<br>
<b>Page 3</b><br>
<hr/>
<a id="p4"></a><b>Generated by ABC Amber LIT Conv<a href="http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html">erter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html</a></b><br>

I can remove the generated by abc part no problem and at times if I remove [hr/] helps... but it is the page numbers.

Not sure if I am doing this correctly...

[niijii]

It's working...THANK YOU!!!!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by niijii

How would I remove
<b>Page 3</b><br>
<hr/>
<a id="p4">

<b>Page [0-9]*</b><br>
<hr/>
<a id="p[0-9]*">

That should work for the search.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

[0-9]*

Matching a digit 0 or more times doesn't really make sense when there's never going to be no digit (though it will still work in this instance). Matching one or more digits [0-9]+ makes more logical sense. And \d+ is even simpler, since it's the exact same thing, but shorter and easier to type.

[niijii]

I have > every so often in the text... how would I remove this?

Thank you so much for this.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by niijii

I have > every so often in the text... how would I remove this?

Thank you so much for this.

That's going to be tricky, since the html tags can be easily mangled if you're not very careful.

[niijii]

It worked! Thank you to you both!

I wish there was simple instructional videos for this

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by niijii

It worked! Thank you to you both!

I wish there was simple instructional videos for this

No videos, but this is where I turn to for all my regex needs:

http://www.regular-expressions.info/