Question about regex and html comments

Vortex · 09-22-2018, 05:22 AM

I have a lot of books that have the subtitle prepended to the book Comments. I've been trying to write a regex to extract them. They all start with a colon and end with a newline followed by a blank line.

I've tried all sorts of different ways, some work in the test view but not in reality, some work on some of the books but not others, most don't work at all. Is there some trick to doing this? Example:

Code:

: Subtitle info

Html comments start here...

BetterRed · 09-22-2018, 05:49 AM

@Vortex - maybe you can make use of this plugin to strip out the HTML tags first ==>> Cleaning Comments

BR

09-22-2018, 05:22 AM	#1
Vortex Groupie Posts: 171 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2008 Device: Likebook Mars	Question about regex and html comments I have a lot of books that have the subtitle prepended to the book Comments. I've been trying to write a regex to extract them. They all start with a colon and end with a newline followed by a blank line. I've tried all sorts of different ways, some work in the test view but not in reality, some work on some of the books but not others, most don't work at all. Is there some trick to doing this? Example: Code: : Subtitle info Html comments start here...

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09-22-2018, 05:49 AM	#2
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,568 Karma: 26954694 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@Vortex - maybe you can make use of this plugin to strip out the HTML tags first ==>> Cleaning Comments BR