How to replace all content from XML tag with blank in notepad++?

rajat narang

I would like to remove all content from id=“*” within a tag and replace with blank. There are 100s of different id values and I would like to remove all of it.

<Type>Computer</Type>
<deductible id=“d6349782384236423784ABD#1212” >
<Type>Standard</Type>
</deductible>
<limit id=“1123123VHGHJKJH65776BJHBHG9”>
<Type>Aggregate</Type>
<ivalue>10000</ivalue>

I want output like this:

<Type>Computer</Type>
<deductible>
<Type>Standard</Type>
</deductible>
<limit>
<Type>Aggregate</Type>
<ivalue>10000</ivalue>

astrosofista

Hi @rajat-narang, All:

-Try this:

Open the Replace dialog (Ctrl + H) and type in:

Search: (?-s)\x20id="[^"]+"\x20?
Replace: [leave empty]

or (if curly quotes are used)

Search: (?-s)\x20id=“[^”]+”\x20?
Replace: [leave empty]

Check the Wrap around option
Select the Regular expression search mode
Click on the `Replace All´´ button

Hope this helps.

rajat narang

@astrosofista said in How to replace all content from XML tag with blank in notepad++?:

(?-s)\x20id=“[^”]+”\x20?

Thank you so much ! It worked perfectly

astrosofista

@rajat-narang said in How to replace all content from XML tag with blank in notepad++?:

Thank you so much ! It worked perfectly

Glad it helped you.

BTW, I forgot to remove the (?-s) modifier, as the * is not used in the expression. It does no harm, but it’s useless.

PeterJones

@astrosofista ,

BTW, I forgot to remove the (?-s) modifier, as the * is not used in the expression. It does no harm, but it’s useless.

Nitpick: it’s the . operator that is affected by (?-s), not the *, since the s flag is “dot matches newline”. But . wasn’t used in your expression, either, so the flag-clearing is still useless. :-)

Well, not completely useless. As we help people in the forums, always including either (?-s) or (?s) will ensure we never have to care what the status of their checkbox is, so having one of the two in our default answer-regex is a good idea. ;-)

astrosofista

@PeterJones said in How to replace all content from XML tag with blank in notepad++?:

Nitpick: it’s the . operator that is affected by (?-s), not the *, since the s flag is “dot matches newline”. But . wasn’t used in your expression, either, so the flag-clearing is still useless. :-)

Yep, my bad, I stated a wrong reason, thank you for notice it :)

Well, not completely useless. As we help people in the forums, always including either (?-s) or (?s) will ensure we never have to care what the status of their checkbox is, so having one of the two in our default answer-regex is a good idea. ;-)

Agree, learned that in this forum, so the (?-s) modifier is my default setup.

Cheers