The problem was case sensitivity indeed. Thanks for the responses.
To answer Marks question: Dar was right. The slash with the question
mark was to match zero or one slashes, so this regex also matches the
closing tags.
So it matches between "<" , followed by zero or one slashes, followed
by "a", followed by any number of characters other than ">", followed
by ">". This can never be too greedy or not greedy enough because of
the [^>]* part. Only when there would be another another tag in the
HTML file that has got nothing to do with a link, like "<address></
address>", it replaces too many instances. Luckily that doesn't
bother me in this case.
Terry
Op 15-jul-2006, om 19:00 heeft use-revolution-
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On Jul 15, 2006, at 7:34 AM, Mark Greenberg wrote:
put replacetext(myVar,"</?a[^>]*>","") into myVar
but why do you have /? in your RegEx string?
I think I can guess that one, Mark. From one of my pages:
<a href="rev.html">Revolution</a><br>
I think Terry's intent is to change that to this:
Revolution<br>
So both the <a and </a must be matched. The optional slash does that.
(The regex does not handle a ">" in an attribute string, say, for
title, but maybe there cannot be one.)
Dar Scott
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