[thelist] Regex and converting HTML tags to lower case
Burhan Khalid
thelist at meidomus.com
Sat Nov 8 06:52:56 CST 2003
Bruce MacKay wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> New to regex and predictably I am encountering a problem. I want to
> convert all HTML tags to lower case.
>
> I can identify the tags in regex, but I cannot find any online examples
> of using that info to convert the tags to lower case.
>
>
> function fnLowerCaseHTML(strHTML)
> Dim objRegExp, strOutput
> Set objRegExp = New Regexp
> objRegExp.IgnoreCase = True
> objRegExp.Global = True
> objRegExp.Pattern = "<(.|\n)+?>"
> strOutput = ?????
> fnLowerCaseHTML = strOutput
> Set objRegExp = Nothing
> End Function
>
> Can anyone help me? Is it possible to do what I'm trying to accomplish
> with regex?
It is, but I don't know how to go about it in ASP (which is what you are
using). In PHP, there is a preg_replace which does what you want. Maybe
you can find a (or someone can suggest a) ASP equivalent.
Although I'm not a ASP guru, but this link (wrap warning) should help
you out :
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/vsobjregexp.asp>
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Sorry couldn't be of more help :(
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Burhan Khalid
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