Regex: How to replace the content of a tag

Vasile Caraus

hy. I want to math all the words that end with “!” from this tag:

<title>Why I love! you so much</title>

In this case, I want to match the word love! because has an !

Now, I made this beautiful regex:

(?-s)(<title>)*\w+!(?!\w*;)(?=[^<]*</title>)

Now, I want to use this regex, to replace in several .html files all those tags that has ! Basicaly, I want to delete them from these tag. I try to replace ! wih an emptyspace, like so:

Search: (?-s)(<title>)*\w+!(?!\w*;)(?=[^<]*</title>)
Replace by: \1\2(LEAVE EMPTY)

But doesn’t work. Can anyone help me?

Vasile Caraus

After replace, My tag should loook like:

<title>Why I love you so much</title> (without !)

guy038

Hello @vasile-caraus,

I think that your regex S/R is excessively complicated ! Why not trying this simple one :

SEARCH (?i)(?<=\w)!(?=\x20)

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

So, this search regex would match any ! symbol, which is, both :

Preceded by a word character, whatever its case, due to the (?i) modifier
Followed by a space character

and would be deleted, as the replacement zone is empty !

Cheers,

guy038

Vasile Caraus

Search: (?:\G(?!^)|<title>)[^<]*?\K\b!\B

Replace by: (leave a space)!