StringRegExpReplace help with html tags

[Champak]

Could someone who me how to remove '<' and '>' and everything between them please? Basically replace it with nothing.

Edited January 20, 2015 by Champak

[DicatoroftheUSA]

What have you tried?

Edited January 20, 2015 by DicatoroftheUSA

[iamtheky]

local $s = "Some Stuff <and> Some Other Stuff"

msgbox(0, '' , $s)

$sOut = StringRegExpReplace($s , "<.*>" , "")

msgbox(0, '' , $sOut)

[SmOke_N]

Might want to watch for nested:

Global $gsString = "i am <something<here><something> else>a string"
ConsoleWrite(StringRegExpReplace($gsString, "<.*[^<]>", "") & @CRLF)

Edited January 20, 2015 by SmOke_N

[iamtheky]

?  What are you accounting for that I am missing

Global $s = "i am <something<here><something> else>a string"

$sOut1 = StringRegExpReplace($s , "<.*>" , "")

$sOut2 = StringRegExpReplace($s, "<.*[^<]>", "")

msgbox(0, '' , $sOut1)
msgbox(0, '' , $sOut2)

Edited January 20, 2015 by boththose

[SmOke_N]

I changed it to that... I had a lazy quantifier in it before and realized it didn't remove the last forward arrow, so I just removed the lazy without checking if it made a diff...

[iamtheky]

Ah, when it comes to regex I'm constantly afraid I am overlooking something I should have learned a long time ago.

[Champak]

Thanks I tried it but it doesn't work for me...most likely because of the nested feature, I don't know. I tried editing it, but cant get the results I want. Here's an example of what I would need to edit. I don't think I'll ever come across a need for nested in this particular need.

MsgBox(0,0,StringRegExpReplace("6.~Keep <b>right</b> to continue on <b>white plains blah blah Rd</b><div style='font-size:0.9em'>Destination will be on the right</div>~94((48.8388154, -78.8598753))", "<.*[^<]>", ""))

Edited January 20, 2015 by Champak

[kylomas]

Try this...

local $string = "6.~Keep <b>right</b> to continue on <b>white plains blah blah Rd</b><div style='font-size:0.9em'>Destination will be on the right</div>~94((48.8388154, -78.8598753))"
MsgBox(0,0,StringRegExpReplace($string,"<.*?[^<]>", " "))

[Champak]

Thanks, that's perfect. I would never have thought of the question mark.

[kylomas]

Glad it worked.   I just altered the patterns from above from greedy to non-greedy and added a space for readability.

[SmOke_N]

Um... try running that on my string kylomas, that's the exact expression I had that I changed.

[kylomas]

@SmOken_N - Yes, I alluded to your answer in my response.  The OP says that there will be no nested groups...

[SmOke_N]

k, well "<.*?>" would work the same then.

Edit:

This might be better so there aren't leading and trailing spaces even.

StringRegExpReplace($sString, "(?s)\h*<.*?>\h*", " ")

Edited January 20, 2015 by SmOke_N