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Anonymous
July 12, 2009
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php regex

  • July 12, 2009
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hello,

I need to replace my <div> tags to <TEXT> tag, but i'm very bad at regex...

i'm tring with this

<%div%[^>]*>(.*?)</%div%>

but it does not work, what can I do, to change <div align="left">my text</div>  to <TEXT align=left">my text</TEXT>

Thanks

Pluda

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Correct answer David_Powers

You say PHP regex in the subject line, so I have written it for PHP. It's slightly different if you're using Find and Replace in Dreamweaver.

$text = <<<EOL
<div id="div1">Content for  id "div1" Goes Here</div>
<div id="div2">Content for  id "div2" Goes Here</div>
EOL;
$find = '{<div([\w\W]*?)</div>}';
$new = preg_replace($find, '<TEXT\1</TEXT>', $text);
echo $new;

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David_PowersCorrect answer
Inspiring
July 12, 2009

You say PHP regex in the subject line, so I have written it for PHP. It's slightly different if you're using Find and Replace in Dreamweaver.

$text = <<<EOL
<div id="div1">Content for  id "div1" Goes Here</div>
<div id="div2">Content for  id "div2" Goes Here</div>
EOL;
$find = '{<div([\w\W]*?)</div>}';
$new = preg_replace($find, '<TEXT\1</TEXT>', $text);
echo $new;
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Anonymous
July 13, 2009

Hello,

thank you for reply, it solved my problem :-), I do not realy untherstand this regex things, but thei're a big, big help sometimes.

Thanks

Pluda

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Anonymous
August 2, 2009

Are you doing this in PHP or in Dreamweaver? If you're doing it in Dreamweaver, you don't need a regex.

In the Find and Replace dialog box, select Search Specific Tag, and select font from the drop-down menu. Click the minus button to remove any conditions, and set the Action drop-down to Strip Tag.

If it's a regex you need, try this:

$pattern = '/<FONT[^>]*>([\w\W]+)<\/FONT>/i';
$stripped = preg_replace($pattern, '$1', $original);

hello, again, thanks for help

yes, I'm doing this in dreamweaver, but with php code, so ist's a regex I need.

yours, as usual works, but I don't untherstand it, please tell me, where in this patern is the content of the div, or text, or whatever?

example, I found this in internet

#</?FONT[^>]*>#is

you provided me this one

'/<FONT[^>]*>([\w\W]+)<\/FONT>/i'

yours uses /i, the other one uses #is

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