I am using the following regular expression in my code editor (sublime text) in order to search for the ASP.NET comments.
<%--.*(\n.*)*--%>
I want this regular expression to stop looking any forward as soon as the first --%> is found. But it keeps looking until the last comment's --%> is found. I have got this idea that i've to use some kind of flag to make it stop as soon as the first --%> but I am unable to figure it out.
Can anyone please tell me how may I modify this regex?
UPDATE
I forgot to post some sample markup. Here it is:
<div class="modal-footer">
<%--<button class="btn" data-dismiss="modal">
Close</button>
<button id="btnAddCountry" class="btn btn-primary" data-dismiss="modal">
Save changes</button>--%>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row-fluid">
<div class="span12">
<div class="box paint_hover">
<div class="title">
<h3>Sale Voucher</span>
</h3>
</div>
<div class="content">
<ul id="tabExample1" class="nav nav-tabs">
<li class="active"><a id="lnkAddEditVoucher" href="#AddEditVoucher" data-toggle="tab">Add/Update Sale Voucher</a></li>
<li><a id="lnkViewVouchers" href="#ViewVouchers" data-toggle="tab">Search Sale Voucher</a></li>
<%-- <li><a id="lnkViewParties" href="#ViewParties" data-toggle="tab">Search Parties</a></li>--%>
</ul>
I just want to match the first comment and not the second one.
You need to make the * quantifiers non-greedy. Usually this is done by adding a ? after them, e.g. .*? instead of just .*.
I've also simplified the regex a bit. Sublime Text supports the (?s) modifier at the beginning of the pattern to make the dot match even newlines:
(?s)<%--.*?--%>
If you prefer matching the newline explicitly:
<%--(.|\n)*?--%>
The problem you seem to have is that you use the greedy version of .*, which matches anything (including --%>). Try using <%--.*?(\n.*?)*?--%> instead to make it non-greedy.
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I'm trying to replace a common theme used in hundreds of pages in my project:
<div id="PageTitle"> (Page title as a string) </div>
And the title varies each page. I want to replace it with
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12 col-sm-12">
<h3><?= $pageTitle?></h3>
</div>
</div>
I've tried searching with <div id="PageTitle">/^\w+$/</div>, and <div id="PageTitle">"^[a-zA-Z0-9_]*$"</div> with no luck. Any ideas?
You are almost there. Looks like you got the pattern from somewhere else. ^ and $ are starting and ending anchors so they match with the start and end of an input so you should probably get rid of them.
Next if your page title is only going to contain alphanumeric characters (no spaces too) then \w is fine, else you might want to use . instead.
<div id="PageTitle">\w+<\/div>
For a title containing any character:
<div id="PageTitle">.+?<\/div>
Here's a demo
Hope this helps!
Try this one as well, I think its pretty strict:
<div id="PageTitle">(?:(?!<\/div>).)+<\/div>
Or even:
<div id="PageTitle">[\s\S]*?<\/div>
Lets go directly with an example since it is not easy to explain:
<li id="l_f6a1ok3n4d4p" class="online"> <div class="link"> random strings - 4 <a style="float:left; display:block; padding-top:3px;" href="http://www.webtrackerplus.com/?page=flowplayerregister&a_aid=&a_bid=&chan=flow"><img border="0" src="/resources/img/fdf.gif"></a> <!-- a class="none" href="#">random strings - 4 site2.com - # - </a --> </div> <div class="params"> <span>Submited: </span>7 June 2015 | <span>Host: </span>site2.com </div> <div class="report"> <a title="" href="javascript:report(3191274,%203,%202164691,%201)" class="alert"></a> <a title="" href="javascript:report(3191274,%203,%202164691,%200)" class="work"></a> <b>100% said work</b> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li id="l_zsgn82c4b96d" class="online"> <div class="link"> <a href="javascript:show('zsgn82c4b96d','random%20strings%204',%20'site1.com');%20" onclick="visited('zsgn82c4b96d');" style
In the above content i want to extract from
javascript:show('f6a1ok3n4d4p','random%20strings%204',%20'site2.com')
the string "f6a1ok3n4d4p" and "site2.com" then make it as
http://site2.com/f6a1ok3n4d4p
and same for
javascript:show('zsgn82c4b96d','random%20strings%204',%20'site1.com')
to become
http://site1.com/zsgn82c4b96d
I need it to be done with ruby regex
This should give you some insight of how to do it.
https://regex101.com/r/wD4oT8/2
javascript:show\(\'(.*?)'.*?\'([^\']*)\'\) will capture the first argument as $1, last part within ' as $2, so you get what you want by substituting as $2/$1.
That's the regex part of it, and, of course, you can adjust the regex as you see fit, for example, to include the usage of " (javascript:show\((?:\'|\")(.*?)(?:\'|\").*?\'([^\'\"]*)(?:\'|\")\) or allow only with 3 arguments.
/yourregex/.match(yourstring) will extract the information you need.
I've just been doing some research about regular expressions on dreamweaver and had no idea you could do so much with find and replace.
One thing i haven't been able to figure out is if i have:
<div class="item active"> <img src="images/gates2/large/gates1.jpg">
<div class="carousel-caption">WG1</div>
</div>
<div class="item"><img src="images/gates2/large/gates2.jpg">
<div class="carousel-caption">WG1</div>
</div>
<div class="item"><img src="images/gates2/large/gates3.jpg">
<div class="carousel-caption">WG1</div>
</div>
<div class="item"><img src="images/gates2/large/gates4.jpg">
<div class="carousel-caption">WG1</div>
</div>
Can i automatically change the 1 to 2, 3 ect? So it becomes an order? Rather than going through each manually?
Kind Regards,
Shaun
Unfortunately, you won't be able to do what you're describing using the Find & Replace method in Dreamweaver. I know this probably isn't the answer you want to hear but, you'll have to go through them manually. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
How can I write a regular expression to find the third div class name in a group div? So in the instance below, I'd like to find clsA3
<div class="clsA">
<div class=clsA1">blah</div>
<div class=clsA2">blah</div>
<div class=clsA3">blah</div>
</div>
I'm trying to use Visual Studio 2013 Search and Replace using Regular Expression option. The purpose of this task is one-time maintenance task.
Works with VS2010. Not sure if VS2013 does normal regex yet.
Find:
{\<div class=[^>]*\>[ \n]*(\<div class=[^>]*\>[^<]*\</div\>[ \n]*)^2\<div class="#}[^">]+{"#\>[^<]*\</div\>[ \n]*\</div\>}
Replace:
\1Hello World\2
Output:
<div class="clsA">
<div class=clsA1">blah</div>
<div class=clsA2">blah</div>
<div class=Hello World">blah</div>
</div>
the following is the html codes:
<div class="grid1-4">
<a class="largeButton javascript sponsorProject button orangeGrad" href="javascript:;">
<div class="button">
<div class="button progress">
<div class="progressWrapper">
<div class="meter">
<div class="progress" style="width:52%"> </div>
</div>
<p class="progressText">
<span>52% Raised of $20,000 Goal</span>
I want to extract the sentence around at the very bottom of the codes - that is, 52% Raised of $20,000 Goal.
what is the xpath expression for that? I googled and searched for hints but couldn't get much out of it...:(. I even used firebug to find xpath expression yet still, no progress...
thank you
PS: due to the nature of my project, I CANNOT write
//p[#class="progressText"]//span
the xpath expression HAS TO INVOLVE
<div class="grid1-4">
This XPath:
//div[#class="grid1-4"]//text()[contains(., 'Raised of')]
Yields:
52% Raised of $20,000 Goal