[thelist] Regular Expression in Javascript
Bob Haroche
spambait at onpointsolutions.com
Mon Jun 16 23:39:41 CDT 2003
Thorne, Brenton wrote:
> I've been trying for ages and can't get anything to work >:0
>
> I need an RE to replace all <A> tags with <U> tags in a string of
> HTML
Wouldn't this work to match the opening and closing <a> tags?
<a[^>]*> # opening <a>
</a> # closing </a>
As for your other post,
> Why would this not return any instances of '<a' ?
(snip)
> re = /<a/gi;
Might be that /< is a meta-sequence to match the start of a word -- in
your case, a word that starts with plain old "a".
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Regards,
Bob Haroche
O n P o i n t S o l u t i o n s
www.OnPointSolutions.com
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