Finding html tags and everything between them on >>multiple lines?
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Can Notepad++ find (for example):
<script> some stuff some more stuff (new line)
and more stuff </script>I’m trying to get rid of the bloat-code on an HTML document. Thanks for any help!
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Hello, @semicodin,
The correct regex to match any range of characters, even on several lines, with the syntax :
- <script .....>................... </script> or : - <script> ........................ </script>is
(?s-i)<(script)( |>).*?</\1>
Notes :
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The initial part
(?s-i)are modifiers, which forces the regex engine to consider that :-
The special dot character can match, absolutely, any character ( Standard or End of Line characters )
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The search will be performed in a sensitive way ( = non-insensitive )
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Then, the first part
<(script)( |>)tries to match, either, the string <script> OR the string <script, followed with a space character. Note that the word script, embedded in round parentheses, stands for group 1 -
The third part
</\1>matches the exact string </script> -
And the second part
.*?represents the shortest range of any character between part 1 and part 3
IMPORTANT :
Don’t forgot that this simple regex supposes that no other block
<script......</script>is nested, inside the initial block !Best Regards,
guy038
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