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| + | ====== Useful regular expressions ====== | ||
| - | ==Clean paragraph tags== | + | A relatively advanced way to potentially semi-automate a few processes is the use of regular expressions. These are basically an advanced form of “find and replace” which can be very powerful. When used properly, they can clean up certain code and properly format things like footnotes in record time, or convert square bracket< |
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| + | The easiest way to understand the concept is to use a simple one. A fairly typical export from InDesign will have Headers as a paragraph tag, which isn't much use for HTML/ | ||
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| + | Using regex, for the initial sequence (the " | ||
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| + | To convert this to a proper <h1> tag we would replace this with: | ||
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| + | (with '' | ||
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| + | MV's plain text file {{ :: | ||
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| + | Below are some further examples. | ||
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| + | =====Clean paragraph tags===== | ||
| Replace | Replace | ||
| < | < | ||
| with | with | ||
| < | < | ||
| - | ==remove span tags:== | + | =====remove span tags:===== |
| Replace | Replace | ||
| < | < | ||
| with nothing | with nothing | ||
| - | ==Remove empty paragraph tags:== | + | =====Remove empty paragraph tags:===== |
| Replace | Replace | ||
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| with nothing | with nothing | ||
| - | ==Bold paragraphs to h4:== | + | =====Bold paragraphs to h4:===== |
| Replace | Replace | ||
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| < | < | ||
| </ | </ | ||
| - | ==Handling footnotes: | + | =====Handling footnotes:===== |
| < | < | ||
| <a (href="# | <a (href="# | ||
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| \1< | \1< | ||
| </ | </ | ||
| - | ==Finding and replacing double quotation: | + | =====Finding and replacing double quotation:===== |
| < | < | ||
| (?< | (?< | ||
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| - | ==Removing line breaks in code:== | + | =====Removing line breaks in code:===== |
| This is useful if above isn't working because of line breaks. | This is useful if above isn't working because of line breaks. | ||
| Replace | Replace | ||