Match and replace specific word between two tag symbol

Jade Owen

Hi,
I’m trying to rename a specific word within tag symbol and i just cant figure it out and already tried looking on examples but still I’m stuck. Kindly please help.

Example: I want to rename the word “LOCAL” to “SPACE” but only within <div>xx…xx</div>.
<div>xxMETADATA-LOCALX1-ROOMG1-LEVELB2xx</div>
<div class=“metadata”>METADATA-LOCALX1-ROOMG1-LEVELB2</div>

Expected Result:
<div>xxMETADATA-LOCALX1-SPACEG1-LEVELB2xx</div>
<div class=“metadata”>METADATA-LOCALX1-ROOMG1-LEVELB2</div>

Thank you very much.

guy038

Hello, @jade-owen,

I’m a bit perplexed ! Indeed, from your example, it looks as you would change the upper-case string ROOM with the upper-case string SPACE, when within a <div>.......</div> range, only… and NOT the LOCAL string !!

If it’s really what you want, the regex, below, should do the job, strictly !

SEARCH (?-is)(<div>.*?LOCAL..-)(.*?)(?=..-.*?</div>)

REPLACE \1SPACE

OPTIONS Tick the Wrap around and Regular expression options

ACTION Click, once, on the Replace All button, or several times on the Replace button

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

Generally speaking, it’s important to point out that regexes are very dependent of the text they are applying against ! Even a simple additional space character, in a text, can break out matches detection of a well-formed regex !

So, I advice everyone, which wants a specific search/replacement, to carefully describe :

The searched text which must be matched
The replacement text which will be inserted, instead

Doing this way should help out to build the right regex(es) and assures you to get a quicker solution, too ;-))