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Posted: **Sun Oct 07, 2012 9:51 am**

How can I limit the search between specific tags?

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<p class="txt" xml:lang="es"><span class="lookforthistag">Change These Words</span><span class="txt">, Roland (2005). </span><span class="crva">El grado cero de la escritura. </span><span class="txt">Seguido de </span><span class="crva">Ensayos crÃticos. </span><span class="txt">Siglo XXI. Madrid. </span></p>

I am triying to select only:

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<span class="lookforthistag">Change These Words</span>

I am using:

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<span class="lookforthistag">\(.*\)\ </span>

but the test Textpad selected in texpad is more than

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<span class="lookforthistag">Change These Words</span>

, it not stop in

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</span>

, it stops in the last

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</span>

of the line.

I am triying to select this specific tag

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<span class="lookforthistag">Change These Words</span>

[Â¡the words are different in each case!]

and change for

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<span class="txt">C</span><span class="small-caps">hange </span><span class="txt">T</span><span class="small-caps">hese </span><span class="txt">W</span><span class="small-caps">ords</span>

I need to put a specific tag for the first letter of each word and other tag for the rest of the word.

Thank you.

Posted: **Sun Oct 07, 2012 12:23 pm**

You're asking two different questions and I can only help with the first one.

To select the "lookforthistag" span element, you can use: <span class="lookforthistag">[^<]*</span>

The .* expression is greedy, so it matches as much text as it can.

However, this doesn't actually help with your second question, which is to add the "txt" and "small-caps" tags into the content of the element. I'll leave that for someone else to tackle...

Posted: **Sun Oct 07, 2012 1:32 pm**

Thank you, ak47wong. It works perfectly...