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I want to replace the HTML tags but keep the text in between.

Find: <span class="Heading3-strong">.*?</span>

Replace: <strong>.*?</strong>

It seems as if something is wrong in the middle...

regex

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  (Since my post was deleted, let's try as a comment.) Using regex to process any kind of nested markup is a very bad idea. If you're not careful, Tony the Pony will come for you. See also the legendary post over on Stack Overflow.
  
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I want to replace the HTML tags but keep the text in between.

Find: <span class="Heading3-strong">.*?</span>

Replace: <strong>.*?</strong>

It seems as if something is wrong in the middle...

regex

share|improve this question

edited yesterday

Glorfindel

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  3
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Parsing HTML with regex is a hard job. See also stackoverflow.com/q/3577641/372239 and stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/372239
  
  – Toto
  yesterday
  

  
  
  
  


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  (Since my post was deleted, let's try as a comment.) Using regex to process any kind of nested markup is a very bad idea. If you're not careful, Tony the Pony will come for you. See also the legendary post over on Stack Overflow.
  
  – Eiríkr Útlendi
  1 hour ago
  

  
  
  
  

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I want to replace the HTML tags but keep the text in between.

Find: <span class="Heading3-strong">.*?</span>

Replace: <strong>.*?</strong>

It seems as if something is wrong in the middle...

regex

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Glorfindel

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edited yesterday

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It's not clear which program you are using the regex in, but what you're looking for are capturing groups and backreferences.

For example, in Notepad++, the following would work:

Find:

<span class="Heading3-strong">(.*?)</span>

Replace with:

<strong>1</strong>

The 1 is a back reference to the first capturing group (the part between ( and )) in the regular expression.

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My previous post was deleted, so let me try again, with more detail.

In all seriousness, do not use regex on nested markup. It's a recipe for pain.

Although Glorfindel's example works for simple cases, it will fail whenever you run into nested tag sets.

Works:

<span class="Heading3-strong">this is text</span>

... becomes:

<strong>this is text</strong>

This is still well-formed and valid markup.

However, this doesn't work:

<span class="Heading3-strong">this is text <span style="color:red;">with</span> <span style="color:blue;">additional</span> <span style="color:green;">tags</span> in the middle</span>

... becomes:

<strong>this is text <span style="color:red;">with</strong> <span style="color:blue;">additional</span> <span style="color:green;">tags</span> in the middle</span>

This is now malformed markup.

This is an intractable problem for simple regex -- there's just no way to handle nested markup correctly with regex alone. If you need to change tag pairs in any sort of nested tag content, your best bet is to use a tool specifically geared towards markup, such as XSLT or something similar.

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It's not clear which program you are using the regex in, but what you're looking for are capturing groups and backreferences.

For example, in Notepad++, the following would work:

Find:

<span class="Heading3-strong">(.*?)</span>

Replace with:

<strong>1</strong>

The 1 is a back reference to the first capturing group (the part between ( and )) in the regular expression.

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GlorfindelGlorfindel

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It's not clear which program you are using the regex in, but what you're looking for are capturing groups and backreferences.

For example, in Notepad++, the following would work:

Find:

<span class="Heading3-strong">(.*?)</span>

Replace with:

<strong>1</strong>

The 1 is a back reference to the first capturing group (the part between ( and )) in the regular expression.

share|improve this answer

answered yesterday

GlorfindelGlorfindel

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It's not clear which program you are using the regex in, but what you're looking for are capturing groups and backreferences.

For example, in Notepad++, the following would work:

Find:

<span class="Heading3-strong">(.*?)</span>

Replace with:

<strong>1</strong>

The 1 is a back reference to the first capturing group (the part between ( and )) in the regular expression.

share|improve this answer

answered yesterday

GlorfindelGlorfindel

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<span class="Heading3-strong">(.*?)</span>

<strong>1</strong>

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GlorfindelGlorfindel

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GlorfindelGlorfindel

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GlorfindelGlorfindel

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My previous post was deleted, so let me try again, with more detail.

In all seriousness, do not use regex on nested markup. It's a recipe for pain.

Although Glorfindel's example works for simple cases, it will fail whenever you run into nested tag sets.

Works:

<span class="Heading3-strong">this is text</span>

... becomes:

<strong>this is text</strong>

This is still well-formed and valid markup.

However, this doesn't work:

<span class="Heading3-strong">this is text <span style="color:red;">with</span> <span style="color:blue;">additional</span> <span style="color:green;">tags</span> in the middle</span>

... becomes:

<strong>this is text <span style="color:red;">with</strong> <span style="color:blue;">additional</span> <span style="color:green;">tags</span> in the middle</span>

This is now malformed markup.

This is an intractable problem for simple regex -- there's just no way to handle nested markup correctly with regex alone. If you need to change tag pairs in any sort of nested tag content, your best bet is to use a tool specifically geared towards markup, such as XSLT or something similar.

share|improve this answer

answered 1 hour ago

Eiríkr ÚtlendiEiríkr Útlendi

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My previous post was deleted, so let me try again, with more detail.

In all seriousness, do not use regex on nested markup. It's a recipe for pain.

Although Glorfindel's example works for simple cases, it will fail whenever you run into nested tag sets.

Works:

<span class="Heading3-strong">this is text</span>

... becomes:

<strong>this is text</strong>

This is still well-formed and valid markup.

However, this doesn't work:

<span class="Heading3-strong">this is text <span style="color:red;">with</span> <span style="color:blue;">additional</span> <span style="color:green;">tags</span> in the middle</span>

... becomes:

<strong>this is text <span style="color:red;">with</strong> <span style="color:blue;">additional</span> <span style="color:green;">tags</span> in the middle</span>

This is now malformed markup.

This is an intractable problem for simple regex -- there's just no way to handle nested markup correctly with regex alone. If you need to change tag pairs in any sort of nested tag content, your best bet is to use a tool specifically geared towards markup, such as XSLT or something similar.

share|improve this answer

answered 1 hour ago

Eiríkr ÚtlendiEiríkr Útlendi

1685

add a comment | 

My previous post was deleted, so let me try again, with more detail.

In all seriousness, do not use regex on nested markup. It's a recipe for pain.

Although Glorfindel's example works for simple cases, it will fail whenever you run into nested tag sets.

Works:

<span class="Heading3-strong">this is text</span>

... becomes:

<strong>this is text</strong>

This is still well-formed and valid markup.

However, this doesn't work:

<span class="Heading3-strong">this is text <span style="color:red;">with</span> <span style="color:blue;">additional</span> <span style="color:green;">tags</span> in the middle</span>

... becomes:

<strong>this is text <span style="color:red;">with</strong> <span style="color:blue;">additional</span> <span style="color:green;">tags</span> in the middle</span>

This is now malformed markup.

This is an intractable problem for simple regex -- there's just no way to handle nested markup correctly with regex alone. If you need to change tag pairs in any sort of nested tag content, your best bet is to use a tool specifically geared towards markup, such as XSLT or something similar.

share|improve this answer

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<span class="Heading3-strong">this is text</span>

<strong>this is text</strong>

<span class="Heading3-strong">this is text <span style="color:red;">with</span> <span style="color:blue;">additional</span> <span style="color:green;">tags</span> in the middle</span>

<strong>this is text <span style="color:red;">with</strong> <span style="color:blue;">additional</span> <span style="color:green;">tags</span> in the middle</span>

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answered 1 hour ago

Eiríkr ÚtlendiEiríkr Útlendi

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answered 1 hour ago

Eiríkr ÚtlendiEiríkr Útlendi

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answered 1 hour ago

Eiríkr ÚtlendiEiríkr Útlendi

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