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W3Guy
W3Guy

Reputation: 667

Capture a Regex group and use it instead for the search

I have a large html text file that has some inconsistency in ending a paragraph with full-stop.

Below is an example.

<p>Text ending with a full-stop.</p>
<p>Text ending without a full-stop</p>

I want to search for all paragraph that doesn't end with full stop and add a full-stop to it.

Note: am using Notepad++ for the regex search.

How do i do that?

I came up with this [^.](?:</p>) which matches paragraph without fullstop together with the </p> tag.

If only i could use the capture group to do the regex search instead and then replace it with .</p>

Anybody know how i can resolve this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 367

Answers (1)

Iulian Onofrei
Iulian Onofrei

Reputation: 9750

You can use ([^.])(?=<\/p>) that translates to:

Match any character that isn't a dot and is followed by </p>

You can then use the backreference of the first group to add the missing dot by replacing with \1. as seen in this demo I created.

Upvotes: 1

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