macro - Search and Replace - Page 2

Dillinquent · 03-05-2011, 09:28 AM

Thanks Faster, that looks a whole lot more elegant than my cludge! I obviously need to bone up on regex, can you recommend any good resources?

Dillinquent · 03-05-2011, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Faster

Dillinquent: why not use [a-z]^13^13 for your Find criteria with Wildcards enabled? You only search through once this - way rather than 26 times.

I just tried that in Sigil and it crashed, oh dear.

Faster · 03-05-2011, 01:39 PM

That's because the Find criteria provided is for MS Word.

In Sigil the Find criteria in BOOK view is: [a-z]\n\n

The above is intended to find two newlines after the lowercase letter, but you may have to settle for finding one by deleting a '\n'.

In Sigil the Find criteria in CODE view is: [a-z]</p>
This will find a lowercase letter followed by a single paragraph end.

In both Sigil cases Regular expressions must be checked.

In Sigil BOOK view to delete the newlines and replace it with a space and retain the lowercase letter this is what you use:

FIND: ([a-z])\n\n
REPLACE: \1_ where the underline should be typed as a space.
Unfortunately, you must repeat this for each and every (x)html file in book view.

In code view - where you can do the whole book in one go - it would be very difficult to do this replacing, which is why it is usually done in a word processor before going to Sigil.

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03-05-2011, 09:28 AM	#16
Dillinquent eBook pro Posts: 71 Karma: 5634 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Hertford, UK Device: PC, iPad, Kindle, Kindle Fire, Galaxy Ace	Thanks Faster, that looks a whole lot more elegant than my cludge! I obviously need to bone up on regex, can you recommend any good resources?

03-05-2011, 01:39 PM	#18
Faster Connoisseur Posts: 61 Karma: 12096 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Tasmania Device: Sony PRS 650	That's because the Find criteria provided is for MS Word. In Sigil the Find criteria in BOOK view is: [a-z]\n\n The above is intended to find two newlines after the lowercase letter, but you may have to settle for finding one by deleting a '\n'. In Sigil the Find criteria in CODE view is: [a-z]</p> This will find a lowercase letter followed by a single paragraph end. In both Sigil cases Regular expressions must be checked. In Sigil BOOK view to delete the newlines and replace it with a space and retain the lowercase letter this is what you use: FIND: ([a-z])\n\n REPLACE: \1_ where the underline should be typed as a space. Unfortunately, you must repeat this for each and every (x)html file in book view. In code view - where you can do the whole book in one go - it would be very difficult to do this replacing, which is why it is usually done in a word processor before going to Sigil.

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