Regex examples

[ElMiko]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

Not quite...399 is it, because when you get to 400 you would incorporate the "D" for 500.

Of course.

In that case, I'm with @theducks... totally not worth changing it for a mere 399 chapters...

[patrik]

I'm removing many <a href ... /a> around text (in many files). Most of the time it's fine, sometimes it catches too much.

Example:
<a href="../../f70d_0040.smil#rgn_txt_0040_0006" class="pcalibre2 calibre4 pcalibre1 pcalibre">text</a>
should become
text

I use:

Search:
<a href=".*?(?<=smil).*?">(.*?)</a>
Replace:
\1

But, like in this case, it catches all this (instead of only the second href with ".smil" inside (I want to keep the note)).

<a href="v014884_split_068.html#note-d2e8351" class="pcalibre noteref pcalibre1 pcalibre2" id="id_3738">88</a> <span id="id_3739"> <a href="../../d202_100.smil#txt_2555" class="pcalibre calibre4 pcalibre1 pcalibre2">text</a>


I've been playing around but can't seem to find a reliable way to only get the <a href ... /> which contains ".smil".

Any ideas from you gurus?

[DiapDealer]

Instead of .*?

Try using something like [^>]*

It prevents things from going beyond the closing bracket of a tag

So altogether: something like:

<a href=[^>]*(?<=smil)[^>]*>([^>]*)</a>

just might work.

[patrik]

You rock!

That seems to work perfectly! I learn something every time I read you guys posts. Thanks.

[DiapDealer]

Happy it worked for you!