Replace truncating found text

Ted Friesen · 07-27-2020, 08:30 PM

Using this search: <p><b>([A-Z]+\s[A-Z]+)+</b></p>

the following string was found and the entire string was highlighted
<p><b>MEDICATIONS THAT CAUSE WEIGHT GAIN</b></p>

but applying this replace: <h4>\1</h4>

I got the following truncated result <h4>T GAIN</h4>

What I was hoping to do was to find all occurrences of
<p><b>ONLY WORDS IN CAPS</b></p>, regardless of the number of words and replace it with <h4>ONLY WORDS IN CAPS</h4>. Looking to capture strings of two or more words.

DNSB · 07-27-2020, 08:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ted Friesen

Using this search: <p><b>([A-Z]+\s[A-Z]+)+</b></p>

the following string was found and the entire string was highlighted
<p><b>MEDICATIONS THAT CAUSE WEIGHT GAIN</b></p>

but applying this replace: <h4>\1</h4>

I got the following truncated result <h4>T GAIN</h4>

What I was hoping to do was to find all occurrences of
<p><b>ONLY WORDS IN CAPS</b></p>, regardless of the number of words and replace it with <h4>ONLY WORDS IN CAPS</h4>. Looking to capture strings of two or more words.

Perhaps if you edited your search string to allow white space as an allowed character?

Code:

<p><b>([A-Z\s]+)+</b></p>

davidfor · 07-28-2020, 02:04 AM

I'm pretty sure that extra plus sign is culprit. So:

Code:

<p><b>([A-Z\s]+)</b></p>

That's assuming there is no other punctuation. Or numbers or anything. I frequently use:

Code:

<p><b>(.+?)</b></p>

That just grabs everything between those tags but isn't greedy, so it won't be to dangerous.

Or maybe:

Code:

<p><b>(.+\w)</b></p>

That would help if there are paragraphs that are in bold as well as titles. It assumes the titles don't have punctuation at the end.

Disclaimer: These are completely untested.

Ted Friesen · 07-30-2020, 02:19 PM

Thanks guys for the ideas.

I'll try them out. My reason for not using <p><b>(.+?)</b></p> or <p><b>(.+\w)</b></p> was that I needed to catch only capitalized words.

hobnail · 07-30-2020, 04:31 PM

This seems to work for me in Sigil:

Code:

<p><b>([[:upper:]+[:blank:]]+)</b></p>

Whereas in its ASCII form it does not:

Code:

<p><b>([[A-Z]+[ \t]]+)</b></p>

Score one for verbose POSIX.

DNSB · 07-30-2020, 05:22 PM

I'm beginning to get the feeling that this thread has devolved into how many different regexes will give the same result.

07-27-2020, 08:30 PM	#1
Ted Friesen Nameless Being	Replace truncating found text Using this search: <p><b>([A-Z]+\s[A-Z]+)+</b></p> the following string was found and the entire string was highlighted <p><b>MEDICATIONS THAT CAUSE WEIGHT GAIN</b></p> but applying this replace: <h4>\1</h4> I got the following truncated result <h4>T GAIN</h4> What I was hoping to do was to find all occurrences of <p><b>ONLY WORDS IN CAPS</b></p>, regardless of the number of words and replace it with <h4>ONLY WORDS IN CAPS</h4>. Looking to capture strings of two or more words.

07-28-2020, 02:04 AM	#3
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	I'm pretty sure that extra plus sign is culprit. So: Code: <p><b>([A-Z\s]+)</b></p> That's assuming there is no other punctuation. Or numbers or anything. I frequently use: Code: <p><b>(.+?)</b></p> That just grabs everything between those tags but isn't greedy, so it won't be to dangerous. Or maybe: Code: <p><b>(.+\w)</b></p> That would help if there are paragraphs that are in bold as well as titles. It assumes the titles don't have punctuation at the end. Disclaimer: These are completely untested.

07-30-2020, 04:31 PM	#5
hobnail Running with scissors Posts: 1,581 Karma: 14328510 Join Date: Nov 2019 Device: none	This seems to work for me in Sigil: Code: <p><b>([[:upper:]+[:blank:]]+)</b></p> Whereas in its ASCII form it does not: Code: <p><b>([[A-Z]+[ \t]]+)</b></p> Score one for verbose POSIX. Last edited by hobnail; 07-30-2020 at 04:34 PM.

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07-30-2020, 02:19 PM	#4
Ted Friesen Nameless Being	Thanks guys for the ideas. I'll try them out. My reason for not using <p><b>(.+?)</b></p> or <p><b>(.+\w)</b></p> was that I needed to catch only capitalized words.

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DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 44,451 Karma: 167726581 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	I'm beginning to get the feeling that this thread has devolved into how many different regexes will give the same result.

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