Is it possible to search and replace text without touching html tags?

alfredodo1

Hi
I was wondering if we can search and replace text in a HTML file but not in the HTML tags only the text that appear when you load an HTML page in a browser?

For example, say I want to replace the letter A by B in this line :

Since the letter A is also in the tags, is it possible to only replace the letter A appearing outside the tags?

Thank you much for your help guys

guy038

Hello, @alfredodo1 and All

The regex S/R, below, would search for any A letter, whatever its case, inside the dots area ( . ) ONLY, even if divided in several lines, in the statement <A HREF=bla bla bla bla blah>..................</A> and replace it with the uppercase letter B

SEARCH (?si)(?:\G|<A HREF=.+?>)(?:(?!<|>).)*?\KA

REPLACE B

Notes :

The part, to look for, is located after the \K
Of course you may use other tags , instead of “a href=” !

Just test it with that text below :

 <A HREF="https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp">Visit "W3Schools" to get the 'A B C' of HTML, JAVASCRIPT, PHP, XML, ASP,... !</A>
 
 <a href="https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp">Visit "W3Schools" to get the 'a b c' of HTML, JAVASCRIPT, PHP, XML, ASP,... !</a>
 
 <A href="https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp">
 Visit "W3Schools" to get 
 the 'A B C' of html, javascript, php
 , xml, asp,... !
 </a>

Best Regards,

guy038

alfredodo1

Hi guy038 you really rock thank you so much for your help, that’s very kind from you. Your solution works wonder, thanks for this very detailed help !