Help me write the right regular expression
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 4:23 pm
Hello,
I have a document broken up into passages, with choices for which passage to go to next, like this:
Hopefully you get the idea.
I want to find the numbered passage headings and center them. The issue is that I seem to be able to find numbers followed by a paragraph mark, but not the more specific instances of numbers that are also preceded by paragraph marks. The following regular expression works but is too inclusive; it finds the numbers inside the passages too:
[0-9]{1,3}$
This seems to me to be the right search string to only find the numbered passage headers but doesn't find anything:
$[0-9]{1,3}$
I have a document broken up into passages, with choices for which passage to go to next, like this:
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1
This is the first passage. Turn to whichever passage you want next.
This is the 2nd passage. 2
This passage features clowns. 3
This passage is a mystery. 4
2
Not much to see here.
Go back to the first passage. 1
Clowns? 3
Mystery. 4
3
A gaggle of clowns suddenly erupt from a tiny car, surrounding you with painted grins.
I want to find the numbered passage headings and center them. The issue is that I seem to be able to find numbers followed by a paragraph mark, but not the more specific instances of numbers that are also preceded by paragraph marks. The following regular expression works but is too inclusive; it finds the numbers inside the passages too:
[0-9]{1,3}$
This seems to me to be the right search string to only find the numbered passage headers but doesn't find anything:
$[0-9]{1,3}$