Regex to remove text between 2 strings containing < and /> on different lines

Perry B

Hi guys,

I hope someone can help me with this, I think it is a fairly simple expression, but I cannot get it working.

I want to find and replace all text between 2 strings on different lines.

The text looks like this:

    <vehicle>
        <component1 position="464.8416 118.8764 -817.1907" rotation="-177.5330 -70.8486 -180.0000"/>
        <configuration name="cover" id="1"/>
        <configuration name="fillVolume" id="1"/>
        <configuration name="wheel" id="1"/>
        <configuration name="fillUnit" id="1"/>
        <configuration name="trailer" id="1"/>
        <boughtConfiguration name="cover" id="1"/>
        <boughtConfiguration name="fillVolume" id="1"/>
        <boughtConfiguration name="wheel" id="1"/>
        <boughtConfiguration name="fillUnit" id="1"/>
        <boughtConfiguration name="trailer" id="1"/>
        <attacherJoints comboDirection="-1"/>
        <fillUnit>
            <unit index="1" fillType="UNKNOWN" fillLevel="0.000000"/>
        </fillUnit>
        <cover state="0"/>
    </vehicle>

All I want to do is remove everything between the <vehicle> and </vehicle> tags.
I think the issue is with trying to escape the < and />

Thanks for any help!

Perry B

Correction, I want to remove the tags also.

Alan Kilborn

@Perry-B

It seems like this regex will match your text: (?s)^\h+?<vehicle>.*?</vehicle>\R