Removing Line breaks using regex in PDF when converting

[tankervin]

I have a PDF file with unnecessary line breaks when converting to EPUB. Heuristic processing doesn't work to remove them even if I set to 1. So I thought of using RegEx to replace those breaks with "blank"

Example 1
paying their own</p>
<p class="calibre1">money

Example 2
wrong.</p>
<p class="calibre1">“Who did this....

I can write a regex to get lines without '.'
[^\.]</p>\n<p class="calibre1">

but all this does is highlight the first character in the found string as well (i.e. the "n" from "own" in the first example)

Is there any way to select the string but without removing that last character?

[itimpi]

Have you tried something like:
</p>$^<p class="calibre1">
If I have got my RE correct this should look for a line ending with the <p> tag and the next line starting with the open paragraph tag. You would want to replace this all by a single space.

[tankervin]

The thing is - I only want to replace the lines that don't end with a fullstop '.'.

[nabsltd]

Originally Posted by tankervin

The thing is - I only want to replace the lines that don't end with a fullstop '.'.

Try:

([^.])</p>$^<p class="calibre1">

Then, replace it with "\1 ". The "\1" puts that last character in the replace.