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Regular expressions are new to me and perplexing. In the following snippet I am trying to completely remove everything from and including the "<" in the <ul> tag through the ">" in the </ul> tag.

<div class="title">
<ul class="iconkey" style="color: #000; font-weight: bold;">
<li>ICON KEY:</li>
<li class="location-2">City</li>
</ul>
</h2>
</div><!-- /Title -->

To that end, the following works fine if there are no line breaks between "<ul" and "</ul>." But it doesn't work when there are CRs in the text.

function removeIconKey tagVar
put "<ul class=" & quote & "iconkey" & quote & ".*</ul>" into iconUL
return replaceText(tagVar,iconUL, empty)
end removeIconKey

Can this regex be modified so that it will work even with CRs in the text? If so, how? I've tried a couple things in online regex testers that work but they fail in LiveCode.

Best,
Sieg

Hi Sieg,

Can this regex be modified so that it will work even with CRs in the text?

Yes. Prefix your regex with (?ms); then the dot will match a cr..

I've tried a couple things in online regex testers that work but they fail in LiveCode.

Unfortunately, not that simple


HTH,

THierry

Thanks, Thierry! That worked.