Replace text at the first of the specific lines? Sigil or Notepad++ Regex

Question

How can I replace text at the first of specific lines

Example before:

<p>– Your mother created a song?</p>
<p>– She was a pianist.</p>
<p>– Okay then, let us hear the song.</p>

And i want to be like this

<p>"Your mother created a song?"
<p>"She was a pianist."</p>
<p>"Okay then, let us hear the song."</p>

Is there a way to do it in selected text area maybe with regex?

Answer 1

• Ctrl+H
• Find what: (?<=<p>)– (.+)(?=</p>)
• Replace with: "$1"
• check Wrap around
• check Regular expression
• UNCHECK . matches newline
• Replace all

Explanation:

(?<=<p>)    # positive lookbehind, make sure we have <p> before
    –       # – character followed by a space
    (.+)    # group 1, any character nut newline
(?=</p>)    # positive lookahead, make sure we have </p> after

Replacement:

"   # a double quote
$1  # content of group 1, the sentence
"   # a double quote

Result for given example:

<p>"Your mother created a song?"</p>
<p>"She was a pianist."</p>
<p>"Okay then, let us hear the song."</p>