Replacing everything between two comment tags

Question

I'm not much of a gun (at all) at regular expressions.

I need to replace everything between two comments with nothing.

I am trying to resurrect and clean up some HTML for someone whose site is only now available via the Wayback Machine.

So, I have lots (hundreds) of files with:

I want to replace all of this HTML and, of course, the comments themselves

I can do search & replaces on most other stuff but each of the comment sections is slightly different.

Is this possible? Thanks!

I'm using DW CS6 on a Mac.

Jon Fritz · Answer

If all of the comments are identical to what you put above, this should do the trick...

1. With one of your pages open, open the Find & Replace tool
2. Set the Find In dropdown to Current Document

3. Put this in the Find field...

(.)*?

4. Verify that the Replace field is blank

5. Make sure the Use Regular Expression box is checked
6. Hit Replace All

If it tests correctly on your open document, change the Find In dropdown to Entire Current Local Site and hit Replace All again.

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