Replace smaller size text only in HTML file

[luckystriko]

Hello,
Hope someone can help with this. In HTML document opened by TextPad, I have two different sizes of text (footnotes in smaller size letters). Now I would like to replace some text in smaller font size only with no affecting normal text containing the same parts. Is there a way to handle this?
For example, footnotes look like this:

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<p><small> some “text”</small></p>

[AmigoJack]

That's a bit vague, but you could use a regular expression if you want to replace the entire content of those HTML elements:

• search for

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  <p><small>[^<]*</small></p>

• replace with

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  <p><small>whatever you want</small></p>

The regex means that as content every character but an opening angle bracket can appear zero to many times between those element tags.

[luckystriko]

I don't want to replace entire content within the element, just few characters.
Like this: ,“
Is there a way to replace only these characters inside the element and leave the rest as it is?

[AmigoJack]

Why don't you just select the whole line*? The "Replace" dialog window then automatically ticks "Scope: Selected text".

* Selecting the whole line means to also select its line break, not just from the first to the last character. In doubt select 2 lines at one.

[luckystriko]

It’s impossible. Actually I have a lot of html files (a book), and the content within the element are different footnotes. So I want to open them all at once (using TextPad) and replace just few specific characters like this couple: ,”
Hope it’s clear now.

[AmigoJack]

No, please provide an actual example. From your first example I concluded the HTML elements always look the same. And without further explanation I assume you want to replace everything. Now you want to replace only chosen characters (with what by the way?). Post a simple, an advanced and a complicated example of how it looks like now (can line breaks occur in those?) and how the result should look like. Please use BBCode to format your posts (click the fifth button with the caption "</>").

[luckystriko]

It's not English, but for example looks like this:

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<small>* „Isahar“ znači „on je nagrada (plata).“</small></p>

The content within the element is actually a footnote, and it looks different in other places.
I would like to find this: .“ And replace it with this: “. And similar case, find this: ,“ and replace it with this: “,
I know this may seem stupid, but it’s grammatically correct order.

No line breaks. Or at least, it doesn't matter.

This would be very easy to replace in the complete text of the html files, but it is only necessary to make replacements for the footnotes within the element.

[bbadmin]

Find:

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<small>(.+)([.,])“</small>

Replace:

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<small>$1“$2</small>

Check that I've used the correct quote character. This will not do what you want if there is more than one such construct on a line, as it will match up to the last "“</small>".

[luckystriko]

Great! It works for replacement .“ into “.
How to apply it for ,“ to “, ?

[bbadmin]

It should work as "[.,]" matches either of those characters and $2 substitutes what matched.

[luckystriko]

Well, I supposed so, but it doesn't. I checked it again.

[luckystriko]

Attached is a html file that contains footnotes with both cases.
Please try it by yourself.

[bbadmin]

That file does not contain any instances with a comma. If I change the "." in the instance on line 84 to "," it works as expected.

[luckystriko]

Line 84 is with period (.). It works OK.
But in line 79, with comma (,) it doesn't. Please notice the part „On,“ ...

[AmigoJack]

That's because

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“</small>

cannot be found in line 97. If after the ending quotation there may be more text you have to account for that with a third optional group:

• Find:

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  <small>([^<]+)([.,])“([^<]*)</small>

• Replace with:

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  <small>$1“$2$3</small>

Works on:

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      <li id="15">Staviæu neprijateljstvo izmeðu tebe i žene i izmeðu tvog semena i njenog semena. Ono* æe ti glavu zdrobiti, a ti æeš ga u petu raniti.“<p><small>* Doslovno: „On,“ seme Ženino, Hrist.</small></p></li>
      <li id="20">Posle toga, Adam je dao svojoj ženi ime Eva,* jer je ona postala majka svima živima.<p><small>* „Eva“ [hebrejski Hava] znaèi „živa.“</small></p></li>

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      <li id="15">Staviæu neprijateljstvo izmeðu tebe i žene i izmeðu tvog semena i njenog semena. Ono* æe ti glavu zdrobiti, a ti æeš ga u petu raniti.“<p><small>* Doslovno: „On“, seme Ženino, Hrist.</small></p></li>
      <li id="20">Posle toga, Adam je dao svojoj ženi ime Eva,* jer je ona postala majka svima živima.<p><small>* „Eva“ [hebrejski Hava] znaèi „živa“.</small></p></li>