RegEx Help with Backreference I think

guy038

Well, I’m terribly sorry because, given your INPUT text provided in your last post, the two search regexes, of your BookAndVerse macro, below, do not get any match ??

FIND (?-s)^\\c (\d+)(?=(.*\R)+?\\toc2 (.+)$)
FIND (?-is)\\v (?=(?s:.+?^(\u[\u\l -]+ \d+$)))

Did you provide the right INPUT text to test against ?

BR

guy038

Robert Or Janet Diebel

@guy038 Thanx for responding.
If I run the MACRO to change \c & \v with a number and a word (\toc2 1 Samwele) it fails.
If I remove the number (\toc2 Samwele) it works. The number and {space} cause failure.
Could the RegEx be altered to allow the number and {space}?

Robert Or Janet Diebel

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Robert Or Janet Diebel

@guy038 The MACRO reverses line order.
I can maybe get the changes done with a number of simpler RegEx’s run after the fact, but I would prefer it totally automated if possible.
Another alternative is to separate the Numbered books and have a separate RegEx to run against them that would allow a number and {space}

guy038

Hi , @robert-or-janet-diebel,

Oh… How silly I am ! You’re perfectly right. At first sight, I do not remark this important line, beginning your BookAndVerse macro :

            <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="42083" lParam="0" sParam="" />

So, instead of using the ^\u[\u\l -]+ part, for the name, we can use, either, the regexes :

^\w[\w'’ -]+

or

^[[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]'’ -]+ IF no LOW LINE character ( \x{005F} ) occurs in the name

Within these two regexes, I also added the two apostrophe syntaxes ['’]. If you do not need them, don’t add them in the character class !

So, given this example, below :

My very-Best-Novel
1 Samwele
5 L'été de tous les dangers
5 L’été de tous les dangers
1_ te_ST

The first regex ^\w[\w'’ -]+ would match the five lines above
The second regex ^[[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]'’ -]+ would match the first four lines, only

Thus, If we take the general case, you must change, in your Step 2, the search regex as below :

FIND (?-is)\\v (?=(?s:.+?^(\w[\w'’ -]+ \d+$)))

Best Regards,

guy038

Robert Or Janet Diebel

@guy038 I am so very thankful for your help.
Sorry I forgot to point out the line order reversal.
I will give it a try!
All the best to you and yours.

Robert Or Janet Diebel

@guy038 That is working great! I am so thankful!
Dare I mention my last failing MACRO that should change the {space} after the Book-Chapter:verse to a TAB?
Same issue, it works if there is no number.
I will try to figure it out, but if you have any guidance, it would be appreciated.

        <Macro name="Space2Tab" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">
            <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
            <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="^(\w+\s\d+:\d+)\s(.*)$" />
            <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" />
            <Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="$1\t$2" />
            <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="512" sParam="" />
            <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" />
        </Macro>

Robert Or Janet Diebel

@guy038 Got my space-to-tab working.
Thanx for all your help!

Robert Or Janet Diebel

@guy038 Spoke too soon. Got it to change numbered book, then failed on non-numbered.
I am still working on it.

guy038

Hello, @robert-or-janet-diebel,

I suppose that the following regex S/R should work :

FIND ^([\w ]+\x20\d+:\d+)\x20
REPLACE $1\t

Best Regards,

guy038

Robert Or Janet Diebel

@guy038 This works on numbered, but not unnumbered.
Here is what I tried.

^(\d+?\s?\w+\s\d+:\d+)\s(.*)$

It worked on numbered, but not unnumbered
I thought the “?” would make it optional.

Robert Or Janet Diebel

@guy038 Sorry, that does work. I somehow slipped in a space before the RegEx in the MACRO