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

[George Swan <g-swan@maroon.tc.umn.edu>]

Jeffry Friedl discusses a similar issue within the first 50 pages of the
book which everyone is mentioning, "Mastering [regex]"  The double quoted
string issue:

/"[^"]*"/

Don't just buy it; read it... the author has a unique sense of humor.

gs

At 05:51 PM 5/31/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi all, 
>
>We're making the arduous conversion from structured markup to CSS here at
>work. To make my life a little easier, I'm trying to write a little one
>liner Perl script to remove the <font></font> tags from an HTML
>document. Unfortunately, my regex is a little too trigger happy and is
>removing everything between the font tags as well! No good! (I thought
>Perl used greedy regexs which got rid of this problem?)
>
>Anyway, here's what I'm trying to use:
>
>s/<\/*font.*>//i
>
>By my reading, this should substitue anything that starts with "<font" or
>"</font" and ends with ">" with nothing, insensitive of the case.
>
>Any clues as to where I've gone wrong?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Luke
>
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