kurt krueckeberg wrote:
> I want rmove the "<FONT SIZE=3"> from the line below
>
> <FONT SIZE=3>some text goes here</FONT>
>
> so it looks like:
>
> some text goes here</FONT>
>
> Actually, I prefer to also remove "</FONT>", so I just have:
> some text goes here
>
> How do I compose a non-greedy regular expression to find "<FONT
> SIZE=3>"? I've tried
>
> :%s/<FONT\(.*\)\{-1}>//g
^
This "*" is greedy. I think you want
:%s@</\=FONT.\{-}>@@g
which is
< a literal "<"
/\= an optional "/"
FONT the literal tag
.\{-} any character, as few as possible
> a literal ">"
You might put optional whitespace before the slash or FONT, making it
:%s@<\s*/\=\s*FONT.\{-}>@@g
and optionally allow case-insensitivity with the "\c" token:
:%...@\c<\s*/\=\s*FONT.\{-}>@@g
As a non-greedy alternative, you might also consider something
like the character-class "[^>]"
:%s@<\s*/\=\s*FONT[^>]*>@@g
Hope this gives you what you need as well as some ways to riff on
the theme.
-tim
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