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Old 01-12-2010, 07:03 AM   #1
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Problem with regular expressions

I'm having some trouble writing a regular expression to delete page headers in the conversion options. The page header I'm trying to delete basically looks like
Code:
<p class="calibre1">
Title</p><p class="calibre1">
Page 42 of 230</p>
so I figured the regexp needed should look like
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Title</p><p class="calibre1">\nPage [0-9]* of [0-9]*
to match the part from "Title" to the total page number, which is what I want to remove. Now, this works fine if I just use the part up to "\n" or the part after it, which matches the first or the second line I want removed, respectively. But as soon as I try to cobble the two lines together, I don't get any match. I've tried every variation of \n,\s and so forth that I could think of, including slapping some * and ? behind it and fooling around with groups, nothing seems to work.
Seeing as I've never used regular expressions before and just skimmed over the Calibre user manual to piece it together, I'm sure there's something I'm missing, but I cant figure out what it is. What I can figure out is that I somehow don't get how to match a newline. Could anyone help?

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Old 01-12-2010, 10:31 AM   #2
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Title</p><p class="calibre1">[^<]+</p>
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Old 01-26-2010, 08:55 AM   #3
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Unfortunately, that doesn't work. Same problem, it just gets confused about the linebreak.
I thought about maybe passing a flag that the string it should match is on multiple lines, but I don't know how to do this and currently, I'm too busy to figure it out. I'll post again once I find a solution.
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I messed with this a little. I don't know exactly what you are looking for but here is what I have. This should only match on a number followed by a </p> followed by an end of the line.
Search:
of \d+</p>$
Replace
<\p>

So this will find the last line of your three lines with the page number followed by the <\p> at the end of a line. Then replace only the <\p>. It looks like this before:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
sides, and above the jacket collar behind, uncombed. Both beards were short and scant.
<p class="calibre1">
Title</p><p class="calibre1">
Page 42 of 230</p>

The man from the east wore a standard straight sword, the plastic
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

And now after:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
<p class="calibre1">
Title</p><p class="calibre1">
Page 42 </p>
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

This just removes the "of XXX" page numbering part.
Is that what you were after?

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Old 02-02-2011, 11:39 PM   #5
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Did you try this:
Code:
Title</p><p class="calibre1">\s*Page\s*[0-9]+\s*of\s*[0-9]+
Is it showing up correctly as matching in the regex wizard, but not act removing it during conversion? Usually when this happens it's one of two things - there are also non-breaking spaces hiding amongst the real spaces, or there is a bug/limitation where Calibre is showing you html in the wizard that's not exactly the same as the html that is provided to the Search and Replace feature during conversion.

Edit:
Note if non-breaking spaces are your problem you can create a character class to include them. Instead of \s*, use this: [\su00a0]*

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How about a nice simple
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Title</p>.*(?=</p>)
Which should match 'Title</p>' and everything upto but not including the next '</p>'
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Old 02-03-2011, 03:57 AM   #7
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You people do realize that this thread is about a year old? I solved that issue quite some time ago. (The solution was me stopping to be stupid, by the way.)
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Old 02-03-2011, 05:31 AM   #8
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I thought it was odd, that you, who done the regex faq/guide couldn't manage it.
I did look at date, and thought orig post was December.
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You people do realize that this thread is about a year old? I solved that issue quite some time ago. (The solution was me stopping to be stupid, by the way.)
It's never too late to help a brother out. :-)

BTW what was your solution (besides stopping being stupid as you say)?

Maybe we could all learn from your experience.

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Old 02-03-2011, 05:42 AM   #10
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The problem was that I didn't use the regex wizard to test it, basically. I tried to use Notepad++, which doesn't allow for multiline regex matching. (I only found that out while writing the guide, actually.) The reason I did that was that I felt Notepad++ would be faster than Calibre, and I didn't fully understand the wizard. Also, had I known about character classes, especially \s, I might have found a solution sooner.
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Thanks for your wisdom.

I will pass that along to my PeeCee using mates.

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