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Delete anything between "<" and ">"
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 5:51 pm
by ARAS
Hello all,
How to delete anything between these "<" ">" characters and the characters.
For example
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<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Header 1</th>
<th>Header 2</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>row 1, cell 1</td>
<td>row 1, cell 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>row 2, cell 1</td>
<td>row 2, cell 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
Ouput
Header 1
Header 2
row 1, cell 1
row 1, cell 2
row 2, cell 1
row 2, cell 2
Thank you
Re: Delete anything between "<" and ">"
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 6:40 pm
by Thierry
Hi,
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on mouseUp
get replaceText( inputText, "(?m)<[^>]*>", empty)
filter IT without empty
put IT into outputText
end mouseUp
Regards,
Thierry
Re: Delete anything between "<" and ">"
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 8:21 pm
by ARAS
Thierry wrote:Hi,
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on mouseUp
get replaceText( inputText, "(?m)<[^>]*>", empty)
filter IT without empty
put IT into outputText
end mouseUp
Regards,
Thierry
Thank you so much Thierry. It works!!!
Could you explain the code below?
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get replaceText( inputText, "(?m)<[^>]*>", empty)
How did it empty words between those symbols?
ARAS
Re: Delete anything between "<" and ">"
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 8:37 pm
by Thierry
ARAS wrote:Thierry wrote:
Thank you so much Thierry. It works!!!
Could you explain the code below?
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get replaceText( inputText, "(?m)<[^>]*>", empty)
How did it empty words between those symbols?
ARAS
That's all the magic of regular expression which,
in fact, has nothing magic
Ok, I split the regex:
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(?m) -> multi-lines behavior
1st < -> match this character
[^>] -> match anything but not >
[^>]* -> match anything but not >, zero or more times
last > -> match this character
Does that make sense?
HTH,
Thierry
Re: Delete anything between "<" and ">"
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 9:29 pm
by ARAS
Thanks Thierry,
You are a code magician
I made some experiments.
It makes sense now.
I've written my experiment details below. It might be helpful for somebody.
InputText
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<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Header 1</th>
<th>Header 2</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>row 1, cell 1</td>
<td>row 1, cell 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>row 2, cell 1</td>
<td>row 2, cell 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
My Input Text
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get replaceText( inputText, "(?m)<[^>]*>", empty)
Result
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Header 1
Header 2
row 1, cell 1
row 1, cell 2
row 2, cell 1
row 2, cell 2
My Input Text
Code 1
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get replaceText( inputText, "(?m)<", empty)
Result
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table border="1">
tr>
th>Header 1/th>
th>Header 2/th>
/tr>
tr>
td>row 1, cell 1/td>
td>row 1, cell 2/td>
/tr>
tr>
td>row 2, cell 1/td>
td>row 2, cell 2/td>
/tr>
/table>
My Input Text
Code 2
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get replaceText( inputText, "[^>]>", empty)
Result
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<table border="1
<t
<tHeader 1</t
<tHeader 2</t
</t
<t
<trow 1, cell 1</t
<trow 1, cell 2</t
</t
<t
<trow 2, cell 1</t
<trow 2, cell 2</t
</t
</tabl
My Input Text
Code 3
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get replaceText( inputText, "[^>]*>", empty)
Result
Code 4
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get replaceText( inputText, "(?m)<[^>]*>", A)
Result
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A
A
AHeader 1A
AHeader 2A
A
A
Arow 1, cell 1A
Arow 1, cell 2A
A
A
Arow 2, cell 1A
Arow 2, cell 2A
A
A
My Input Text
Best wishes,
ARAS