Parker, Thanks, but that did not do the trick. It still returned the full HTML. yes, you are right though...that first back slash was not needed. Hmm, back to the drawing board I guess. It stinks, I found a regular expression that does what I need but it does not compile in AS3. I'll keep hammering the books and tutorials to try and figure this out. newbies to regex and deadlines don't mix well.
--- In [email protected], "parkerwhirlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > a couple quick things.. I'm by no means an expert at regex... but... > > the first backslash is unnecessary isn't it? & is not a meta > character, so the \ after the first / isn't needed. also, don't you > want to remove ALL characters between the < and > ? so I'd change the > inner [a-zA-Z0-9]* to .*? (the question mark makes it a lazy > quantifier instead of an agressive quantifier) > > And one last thing, is you may need the multi-line flag also (if the > XML has line breaks... so I'd give this a shot... haven't tried it > myself though.... > > /<.*?>/gim > > good luck > PW > > --- In [email protected], "e_baggg" <e_baggg@> wrote: > > > > I am trying to create a regular expression that essentially parses out > > all the html of a text string. (i.e. - Remove all text between "<" > > and ">"). I am not the seasoned regex pro, but my attempts have > > failed based on research within the livedocs: > > > > var pattern : RegExp = /\<[a-zA-Z0-9]*>/gi > > > > Does anyone see what is wrong? > > > > var stringToEdit : String = "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD > > HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN'><html><head>text I should > > see</head></html>"; > > > > var pattern : RegExp = /\<[a-zA-Z0-9]*>/gi > > var newStr : String = stringToEdit.replace(pattern, ""); > > trace(newStr); > > > > //Desired Output: > > text I should see > > > > //Actual output :-( > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 > > Transitional//EN"><html><head>text I should see</head></html> > > >
