[thelist] Regexp help?

[Joshua Olson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dougal Campbell" <dougal at gunters.org>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 12:05 PM


> I've been searching for a regexp that will let me do text replacements
> inside HTML text, but not within HTML tags themselves. In other words,
> if I had content like this:
>
>   <a href="/meta/RSS.xml" title="My RSS feed">Our RSS 2.0 feed</a>

Givent the above string, you could use the following two regex's to
correctly identify the start and the end tag:

Start tag:

<a([\s]+[a-zA-Z]+[\s]*=[\s]*("([^"]*)"|'([^']*)'))*[\s]*>

End tag:

</a>

Once you've indentified those matches it should be fairly trivial to replace
RSS within the text between the tags.

HTH,

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Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
http://www.waetech.com
706.210.0168