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REGEX problem

vneecious — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:56:03 GMT

Hello, everyone!

I need a regular expression that matches every text that is not part of the XML tag. I found the regex below, which works perfectly in any online regex validator, but when i test it in DEMO_REGEX_TOY an error occurs.

(?<=^|>)[^><]+?(?=<|$)

Everything indicates that the problem is in ' <= '. There is another way to make it work?

i'll appreciate if someone help me.

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Vinicius

Re: REGEX problem

Former Member — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:01:42 GMT

Try using

: REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF REGEX '<[a-zA-Z\/][^>]*>'

I tried this on regex toy and it work for me.

Re: REGEX problem

vneecious — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:56:57 GMT

much more simple than search for the content between the tags! thank you 😉

Re: REGEX problem

vneecious — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:07:17 GMT

Simplifying your answer:

REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF REGEX '<[^<]+>' WITH space

Re: REGEX problem

Former Member — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:29:22 GMT

Another option that's more greedy.

REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF REGEX '\<(.*?)\>' WITH space