How to find and replace the last occurrence of a tag ?

dr ramaanand

Block of text to find and replace:-

<div style="margin-bottom:-15px;width: 100%;background-color:#EBF4FB;">
<div class="left">
<div class="left">

I used (?s)<div style="margin-bottom:-15px;width: 100%;background-color:#EBF4FB;">.*\K<div class="left"> and <div class="right"> in the replace in files field with the Regular expression mode selected

dr ramaanand

I think this page should have been titled, “How to find and replace the last occurrence of a string ?”

guy038

Hello, @dr-ramaanand and All,

You said that your regex searches the last ooccurrence of the tag <div class="left"> and suggested to change the title as 'How to find and replace the last occurrence of a string

However, your statement is erroneous. Actually, you just try to find the last occurrence of the <div class="left"> tag, AFTER a first occurrence of the <div style="margin-bottom:-15px;width: 100%;background-color:#EBF4FB;"> tag !

I think that the correct way to match the last occurrence of a specific tag, in current file, is to use the generic regex :

(?s-i)\A.*\K<TAG Name(?: .*?)?>

Just replace the generic TAG Name value with a valid HTML tag

Note that, in case of the comment tag, replace the generic TAG Name, into the above regex, by the literal string !--.*?--

Similarly, the correct way to match the first occurrence of a specific tag, in current file, is to use the generic regex :

(?s-i)\A.*?\K<TAG Name(?: .*?)?>

BR

guy038

dr ramaanand

@guy038 so the correct way to match the first occurrence of a specific string, in the current file, is to use the generic regex :

(?s-i)\A.?\K<STRING(?: .?)?>

guy038

Hello, @dr-ramaanand and All,

I can only repeat what I said earlier: Yes, that’s exactly the only way : (?s)\A.*?\KTAG name(?:.*?)?> !

Of course, if you want to find a the first occurrence of the TAG_2 tag AFTER the first occurrence of an another tag, named TAG_1, my generic regex becomes :

(?s-i)\A.*?<TAG_1(?: .*?)?>.*?\K<TAG_2(?: .*?)?>

BR

guy038

dr ramaanand

@guy038 Oui, merci beaucoup!