Re: [TCLUG:18438] regex for stripping FONT tags?

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Luke Francl wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 31 May 2000, Mike Hicks wrote:
> 
> > I think you might try
> >
> > s/<\/*font.*?>//i
> >
> > The ? will make the regex find the nearest ">" rather than one at the
> > end of the line or the end of the document
> 
> Ah, thank you. I really need to buy "Mastering Regular Expressions"...
> 
> I also needed to add "g" to the end to find all occurances; It was only
> finding one <font> tag per line.
> 
> I've ended up with the following little blurb:
> 
> perl -i -p -e 's/<\/*font.*?>//ig' [filenames]
> 
> It works pretty nice, but doesn't match font tags that break across
> newlines. I tried trowing a \n* in there and adding "s" so that it treats
> the string as a single line, but neither helped.

Hmm.. I think that perl is already breaking the string up into
line-by-line strings.  You'd probably have to somehow join() them back
together into one long string or prevent perl from breaking them up in
the first place.

> This is OK since I can clean those culprits out by hand. Still, any ideas
> on how to fix that?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Luke
> 
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