StringRegExpReplace and HTML-Tags

[Starfighter]

Hello,

I have a problem with the StringRegExpReplace function.

A example in a HTML-File:

</div>-official sites</div>Overview-taglines</div>-trailers</div>-posters</div>

I want delete all strings between </div> and </div>, but only strings with "-" at the beginning.

I want see this string after substitution:

</div></div>Overview-taglines</div></div></div>

I tried the following code:

$ContentOfFileLocalMain=StringRegExpReplace($ContentOfFileLocalMain,'</div>-(.*?)</div>','</div></div>')

This code doesn't work.

Please help me.

Thanks

[mikehunt114]

I'm not a big regular expression guy...so how about just writing the HTML using an If (first character = '-') statement? Too many beers to help further.....maybe tomorrow.

[MisterBates]

Hello,

I have a problem with the StringRegExpReplace function.

A example in a HTML-File:

</div>-official sites</div>Overview-taglines</div>-trailers</div>-posters</div>

I want delete all strings between </div> and </div>, but only strings with "-" at the beginning.

I want see this string after substitution:

</div></div>Overview-taglines</div></div></div>

This works, but doesn't take care to replace *only* between </div> tags:

$sOrig = '</div>-official sites</div>Overview-taglines</div>-trailers</div>-posters</div>'
$sResult = StringRegExpReplace($sOrig, '>-[^<]*', '>')

The problem is that you have overlapping patterns (one </div> may end a pattern and begin the next), so you'll probably need to use assertions - something I've not yet mastered.

EDIT: OK, couldn't resist learning something new. This seems to work (note the change of </div> to </biv> for testing):

$sOrig = '</biv>-official sites</div>Overview-taglines</div>-trailers</div>-posters</div>'
$sResult = StringRegExpReplace($sOrig, '(?<=</div>)-[^<]*(?=</div>)', '')

Edited July 12, 2007 by MisterBates

[SmOke_N]

This works, but doesn't take care to replace *only* between </div> tags:

$sOrig = '</div>-official sites</div>Overview-taglines</div>-trailers</div>-posters</div>'
$sResult = StringRegExpReplace($sOrig, '>-[^<]*', '>')

The problem is that you have overlapping patterns (one </div> may end a pattern and begin the next), so you'll probably need to use assertions - something I've not yet mastered.

EDIT: OK, couldn't resist learning something new. This seems to work (note the change of </div> to </biv> for testing):

$sOrig = '</biv>-official sites</div>Overview-taglines</div>-trailers</div>-posters</div>'
$sResult = StringRegExpReplace($sOrig, '(?<=</div>)-[^<]*(?=</div>)', '')

Nice, I hadn't played with them myself as of yet... after seeing the example, it's definately something to start looking at ...

Edit:

'(?<=</div>)-.*?(?=</div>)'

works as well. Edited July 12, 2007 by SmOke_N

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

'(?<=>)-.*?(?=<)'

So long,

Mega

[Starfighter]

Hi people,

Now the following code works perfect:

$ContentOfFileLocalMain=StringRegExpReplace($ContentOfFileLocalMain,'(?<=</div>)-.*?(?=</div>)','')

Many thanks