RegEx in ncx

Toxaris · 03-30-2012, 02:15 AM

Last night I wanted to change something in my toc.ncx. Since it was a relative easy S&R, instead of a heading '1' I wanted it to be 'Chapter 1', I wanted to use RegEx for it.
No problemo, the RegEx for that is relatively simple. Upon execute, it crashed. I tried several times and it kept crashing. I know for sure that it did work in previous versions.

While I am typing this, I wonder if I had the search mode to 'active HTML' instead of 'current document' while having the toc.ncx as the active tab.
Even if that is the case, I would still not expect Sigil to crash. I would expect either a warning or an automatic change in search mode.

I will test further tonight.

Jabby · 03-30-2012, 11:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toxaris

Last night I wanted to change something in my toc.ncx. Since it was a relative easy S&R, instead of a heading '1' I wanted it to be 'Chapter 1', I wanted to use RegEx for it.
No problemo, the RegEx for that is relatively simple. Upon execute, it crashed. I tried several times and it kept crashing. I know for sure that it did work in previous versions.

While I am typing this, I wonder if I had the search mode to 'active HTML' instead of 'current document' while having the toc.ncx as the active tab.
Even if that is the case, I would still not expect Sigil to crash. I would expect either a warning or an automatic change in search mode.

I will test further tonight.

Could you post your F&R strings? I have been having problems with crashes when doing F&Rs (all HTML) but can't get a handle on the problem. I think it may something to do with making changes with <h> tags but I can;t be sure.

Sure would like to figure this out so the guys could fix it.

Regards - John

Toxaris · 03-30-2012, 01:01 PM

I checked and if i change it to 'current file' I don't have an issue. Setting it to current HTML file will crash Sigil though.

mmat1 · 03-30-2012, 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jabby

Could you post your F&R strings? I have been having problems with crashes when doing F&Rs (all HTML) but can't get a handle on the problem. I think it may something to do with making changes with <h> tags but I can;t be sure.

There is a known S&R issue in 5.3 and the circumstances remind me strongly on this. I saw this in the 5.3 release thread. "If searching in css with "all html" on Sigil crashes if the search-string is not found in one of the normal html-files"

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Edit: A crash with "current file" on was not mentioned in the thread i'm talking about.

Toxaris · 03-30-2012, 04:09 PM

In 'current file' it works. In a way it makes sense that if you search in a non-HTML file, but specify that it must look in the current HTML file that this won't work. A crash is something else though...

03-30-2012, 02:15 AM	#1
Toxaris Wizard Posts: 4,520 Karma: 121692313 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Heemskerk, NL Device: PRS-T1, Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura	RegEx in ncx Last night I wanted to change something in my toc.ncx. Since it was a relative easy S&R, instead of a heading '1' I wanted it to be 'Chapter 1', I wanted to use RegEx for it. No problemo, the RegEx for that is relatively simple. Upon execute, it crashed. I tried several times and it kept crashing. I know for sure that it did work in previous versions. While I am typing this, I wonder if I had the search mode to 'active HTML' instead of 'current document' while having the toc.ncx as the active tab. Even if that is the case, I would still not expect Sigil to crash. I would expect either a warning or an automatic change in search mode. I will test further tonight.

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03-30-2012, 01:01 PM	#3
Toxaris Wizard Posts: 4,520 Karma: 121692313 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Heemskerk, NL Device: PRS-T1, Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura	I checked and if i change it to 'current file' I don't have an issue. Setting it to current HTML file will crash Sigil though.

03-30-2012, 04:09 PM	#5
Toxaris Wizard Posts: 4,520 Karma: 121692313 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Heemskerk, NL Device: PRS-T1, Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura	In 'current file' it works. In a way it makes sense that if you search in a non-HTML file, but specify that it must look in the current HTML file that this won't work. A crash is something else though...

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