Ah, so no digit dependency at all, right? Does this work:

Search: *<p>(.+?):(.+)</p>*
replace: *<p><strong>\1</strong>:\2</p>*

On Sun, 14 May 2023 at 23:05, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk <
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> No Kaveh - Unfortunately Fletcher's reply doesn't help.
> I'll try to clarify.
>
> In this case, I want to make *bold* parts of some lines of text which
> begin with <p> up to where the bold part will end at a colon (:) Any text
> after the colon won't be bold.
>
> <p>*All this text will be bold, as until the first colon*: The text after
> the colon will be normal.</p>
>
> <p><strong>123</strong>Any lines which begin as this one does, will not be
> changed.</p>
> (The number being any combination of 1-3 digits).
>
> I hope that's more clear. Apologies for the lack of clarity.
> Andy
>
> On Sunday, 14 May 2023 at 20:11:38 UTC+1 Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
>
>> Sorry, still not clear for me. Does Fletcher's answer work?
>>
>> Are you saying there are specific numbers you do not want to match, say
>> <strong>135</strong>
>> but ones that you do want to match, say
>> <strong>137</strong>
>> ?
>>
>> Otherwise can you explain further?
>>
>> On Sun, 14 May 2023 at 18:09, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, of course, Kaveh - thanks for your speedy reply - again!
>>> I got this the other day (you helped with it) to find a line of text (or
>>> text and numbers) which end with a colon and a space -
>>> <p>(.+?)\:
>>> It's brilliant, but there are occasions when I want to avoid a pattern
>>> such as <strong>123</strong>. The number varies, (from 1 to 999) and there
>>> may be other numbers, but I want to include those. In other words, avoid
>>> lines with numbers within the <strong></strong> tags.
>>>
>>> At other times, I want to avoid a certain word (or html).
>>> I hope that makes sense!
>>> Andy
>>>
>>> On Sunday, 14 May 2023 at 17:57:20 UTC+1 Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
>>>
>>>> can you give examples of strings you want to match and strings you
>>>> don't want to match?
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 14 May 2023 at 17:29, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Something that I've been unable to find out is how to skip searching
>>>>> something which already contains a simple pattern:
>>>>> For instance, to find a number consisting 1-3 digits I use (\d{1,3}) -
>>>>> but how can I AVOID a number of up to 3 digits?
>>>>> Thanks in advance -
>>>>> Andy
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