Replace html tag with regular expression

Linh Việt · Mar 8, 2023, 2:42 PM

Hello everyone. I have this html code:

<hint><type="book"><string-name><surname>Alex</surname>, <given-names>Nere</given-names></string-name>, <year>2012</year>, <article-title>The Dark Side of Money</article-title>, <source>Priest With A Goal</source></type></hint>
<hint><type="journal"><string-name><surname>Radosław</surname>, <given-names>Natali</given-names></string-name>, <year>2013</year>, <article-title>8 Mood-Boosting Benefits of Money</article-title>, <source>Phantom Without A Conscience</source>, <volume>1</volume></type></hint>
<hint><type="journal"><string-name><surname>Eamon</surname>, <given-names>Heino</given-names></string-name>, <year>2014</year>, <article-title>How Millennials Are Disrupting Money</article-title>, <source>Humans Of Power</source>, <volume>II</volume></type></hint>
<hint><type="other"><string-name><surname>Marta</surname>, <given-names>Amice</given-names></string-name>, <year>2015</year>, <article-title>Here's My Secret Sauce for Success in Money</article-title>, <source>Enemies Of The Nation</source>, <issue>2</issue></type></hint>
<hint><type="other"><string-name><surname>Vepkhia</surname>, <given-names>Terrie</given-names></string-name>, <year>2016</year>, <article-title>Why the Money Business Is Flirting With Disaster</article-title>, <source>Lords And Priests</source></type></hint>
<hint><type="book"><string-name><surname>Ulf</surname>, <given-names>Nima</given-names></string-name>, <year>2017</year>, <article-title>13 Hilarious Tweets About Money</article-title>, <source>Aliens And Turtles</source></type></hint>
<hint><type="other"><string-name><surname>Baard</surname>, <given-names>Irine</given-names></string-name>, <year>2018</year>, <article-title>Forget Everything You’ve Ever Known About Money</article-title>, <source>Faction Without Courage</source></type></hint>
<hint><type="other"><string-name><surname>Kalyani</surname>, <given-names>Loreta</given-names></string-name>, <year>2019</year>, <article-title>This Will Fundamentally Change the Way You Look at Money</article-title>, <source>Construction Of Joy</source></type></hint>
<hint><type="journal"><string-name><surname>Hubertus</surname>, <given-names>Camilla</given-names></string-name>, <year>2020</year>, <article-title>The 15 Best War Sites on the Internet</article-title>, <source>Never Trust The North</source>, <volume>I</volume>, <issue>1</issue></type></hint>

I want replace all <article-title> to <chapter-title> where <type=“book”>
Can anyone give me a solution to this problem because the line in my file is a lot
Thanks for reading and giving me the solution

Best regards!

PeterJones · Mar 8, 2023, 3:13 PM

@Linh-Việt ,

So, you want to replace any <article-title> with <chapter-title>, but only when inside a <type="book"> .... </type> pair, and not between other types, like <type="journal">...</type>?

That sounds like a job for FAQs > Generic Regex > Replacing in a specific zone of text , where you could use:

Find Regex FR = article-title>
Replacement Regex RR = chapter-title>
Begin Search Region BSR = <type="book">
End Search Region ESR = </type>

Using those values in the bold “variables” in the regex shown in that article, you would get:

Find What = (?-si:<type="book">|(?!\A)\G)(?s-i:(?!</type>).)*?\K(?-si:article-title>)
Replace With = chapter-title>
Replace All will convert the text for you.
- (doing multiple Replace commands won’t necessarily work, because of the way that \K works)

BTW: thanks for formatting your example data correctly. It helps us make sure we read your data correctly!

----

Replace html tag with regular expression

Useful References