This looks good at first glance, but it won't do what they need.
Paragraph 1
<p>Paragraph 2</p>
<p>Paragraph 3</p>
Paragraph 4
You will end up with
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2</p>
<p>Paragraph 3
Paragraph 4
Remember -- .* is /very/ greedy.
-- Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software, Inc
-----Original Message-----
From: Teel, C. Doug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 3:01 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Call to the regex ninja clan
Try this. If you need to add more tags just put them in the first set of
parenthesesis in between the pipes. Thanks Doug
#rereplacenocase('#yourstring#','<(p|font|textformat).*>(.*)<\/\1>','\2','AL
L')#
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Daniels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 12:52 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Call to the regex ninja clan
Sending this on behalf of a colleague. I unfortunately do not belong to
the regex ninja clan either.
Begin forwarded message:
> I have some text being sent back from a flash rich text editor. It
> works
> great but flash autogenerates some nasty html that could potentially
> really screw things up...
>
> So.. here is the challenge, I need to remove all the following tags:
>
> <font></font> | <p></p> | <textformat></textformat>
>
> ..and they may have additional attributes. Thanks in advance any who
> can
> solve this brain tickler,
> Brian
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