Using regex to fix broken paragraph in Chinese

[icearch]

Originally Posted by ElMiko

See the attached txt file. As I said before, I wasn't able to discern from your screenshots what text editor you were using, but that may be contributing to the issue if they are using a different regex engine (or different version of the same regex engine).

My screenshot all comes from Sigil.

And your code does not work.



The right bottom says "didn't find any matching to replace"



You can read this. And this is that I fixed </i> with <\/i> so no error.

[ElMiko]

Originally Posted by icearch

My screenshot all comes from Sigil.

And your code does not work.

Attachment 223602

The right bottom says "didn't find any matching to replace"

Attachment 223603

You can read this. And this is that I fixed </i> with <\/i> so no error.

icearch... you're killing me, bud.

The reason the search didn't match anything is because you changed the text from plain text to html! You stated your original example was plain text so I modified my regex to accommodate that instead of an HTML doc.

All the lines in the new text you showed in the last post are within <p> tags. So of course the search that I modified to match your plain text example won't match anything.

Plain Text:


HTML:


As you can see, depending on which version of the regex search i use, i get the same number of matches in both the plain text and html samples. And it doesn't require (nor should it include) a backslash before the "/i" because a forward slash isn't a special character in regex.

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P.S. What is the regex validation checker you're using?

[icearch]

My bad, I see you tend to use html tags, so I thought you give me regex works with tags. I'm not a competent regex user so I did not spot that.

And your code works great, thank you.

I use

https://regex101.com/

and

https://regexr.com/

to test regex.