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correct my regex please?

demon01
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May 17, 2008, 9:27 AM

Post #1 of 4 (1847 views)

correct my regex please?	Can't Post

$course_name has HTML tags that I need to removes. There are several and not all have closing tags.

This is what I came up with but I was wondering if there was a to make it all one regex expression.

$course_name=~ s/<(\w+)>/ /;
$course_name=~ s/<(\/\w.*)>/ /;
$course_name=~ s/<(\w.*)>/ /;

I am still not clear on how to group expressions.

KevinR
Veteran

May 18, 2008, 8:25 AM

Post #2 of 4 (1813 views)

Re: [demon01] correct my regex please? [In reply to]	Can't Post

Code

s/<\/?[^>]+>//g;

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KevinR
Veteran

May 18, 2008, 9:12 AM

Post #3 of 4 (1810 views)

Re: [demon01] correct my regex please? [In reply to]	Can't Post

Code

s/    <- beginning of regexp 
  
<\/?  <- search for < followed by none or one / 
  
[^>]+ <- one or more of any characters except > 
  
>     <- search for > 
  
//g   <- replace the above pattern with nothing. The 'g' finds and replaces all occurances of the pattern in the string

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(This post was edited by KevinR on May 18, 2008, 9:18 AM)

demon01
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May 18, 2008, 10:06 AM

Post #4 of 4 (1802 views)

Re: [KevinR] correct my regex please? [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thanks Kevin, offer stills stands.

Not sure how my PM got double posted.

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