Header/Footer removal

Solicitous · 03-29-2010, 11:09 PM

Hi All,

I have a few books in .HTML format, with each book having individual .HTML pages for each chapter. Now I am trying to convert these to .EPUB and remove the headers/footers and am really stuck with regex.

The header and footers look like this from the .HTML file.

Quote:

<hr>
<p class="nav">
<a href="Chapter19.html">previous</a> |
<a href="-Book Title-.html">Table of Contents</a> |
<a href="Chapter21.html">next</a></p>
<hr>

So obviously the ChapterXX.html will increment/decrement depending on the current page. Is someone able to help me construct a regex to remove those headers/footers please? (both the header and footer have identical code ie: top and bottom of the page had identical links).

kovidgoyal · 03-30-2010, 12:36 AM

Code:

(?s)<hr>.*?<p class="nav">.*?</p>.*?<hr>

Solicitous · 03-30-2010, 06:53 AM

Thanks for that, worked a treat. Muchly appreciated.

03-30-2010, 12:36 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Code: (?s)<hr>.?<p class="nav">.?</p>.*?<hr>

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Solicitous Wizard Posts: 1,434 Karma: 1525776 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: TAS, Australia Device: Astak Pocket Pro (Black), 2 x Kindle WiFi (Graphite), iPod Touch 4G	Thanks for that, worked a treat. Muchly appreciated.

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