In constructing ebooks, I often run into these unnecessary HTML tag pairs in files exported from InDesign:

<span class="no-break">I don</span>’t

or:

<span class="no-break">my decision.</span>

It always follow the pattern of <span class="no-break"> followed by some random amount of text and then a closing </span>. Deleting these tags (and there are lots of them!) manually in SublimeText is a huge time sink.

I'd like to have an AHK script or Regex code that will delete these specific tags but not the text between them, leaving, for example:

I don't
my decision.

Although it seems a simple problem, I've not been able to come up with anything that works. Thanks!

Thanks, but no joy. I saved the code as "ExtSwitch.ahk", double-clicked that file, selected an .epub file, and pressed Ctrl + ` (the hotkey). Nothing happened; no error message, either.

Wow, I AM rusty. That was the problem. Now that I've run it correctly, the results are just what I want. And I really like the ability to specify a text file as the content block for each generated file. This will save me a lot of time. Thanks so much for a valuable addition to my workflow! -- Bob