Regular Expressions

[littleezza]

Hi,

I use Calibre to convert my books. When I first started using it I kept getting .....<b.*?>\s*Generated\s+by\s+ABC\s+Amber\s+LIT.* ?</b>..... in some of my books. I worked out how to get rid of that one by using the regular expressions and highlighting the <b and </b> strings but I have two other ones I can't get rid of.

">ABC Amber LIT Converter http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html ABC Amber LIT Converter http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htm

and

Create PDF with GO2PDF for free, if you wish to remove this line, click here to buy Virtual PDF Printer</a></p>

I can't figure out how to get rid of them. The creat pdf one should work because it shas the <p and </p> strings but it won't.

The ABC Amber one has no strings so have no idea how to get rid of them.

Please someone help.

Sorry if this has been asked before.

Thanks

[therealjoeblow]

Here's a good regex reference:

http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html

In regular expressions, the following are "special" characters that need to be dealt with in a particular manner:

[\^$.|?*+()

To search for any of these, you need to put \ in front of them to supress their special meaning.

With your string as follows:

">ABC Amber LIT Converter http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html ABC Amber LIT Converter http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htm

...you can try searching with the following regex:

">ABC Amber LIT Converter http://www\.processtext\.com/abclit\.html ABC Amber LIT Converter http://www\.processtext\.com/abclit\.htm

...that should find what you're looking for. Note the \ character in front of the . to search for the period itself. Also note, in the simple .html file I created to test it, calibre converted the "> to "&gt; when generating the code in the regex wizard/tester - you might need to fiddle with that part a bit depending on your actual source, it might be a bit different if it's not a .html input file.

Cheers
The REAL Joe