Looking to replace option value="" with the text between <option value="">this text</option> - regex

Question

I have this html, and I want to replace the numeric value within value="##" with the value between <option>value</option>
For example: <option value="16">Accounting</option>, I want to know the regex it'd take to automatically change it to <option value="Accounting">Accounting</option>
I plan on doing it to this entire list.
<option value="16">Accounting A.A.S.</option>
<option value="15">Accounting A.S.</option>
<option value="33">Art Studies</option>
<option value="18">Business Administration A.A.S.</option>
<option value="17">Business Administration A.S.</option>
<option value="20">Computer Network Technician</option>
<option value="21">Computer Support Specialist</option>
<option value="40">Criminal Justice A.A.S.</option>
<option value="39">Criminal Justice A.S.</option>
<option value="37">Criminal Justice: Corrections Certificate</option>
<option value="41">Criminal Justice: Cybersecurity</option>
<option value="42">Criminal Justice: Economic Crime</option>
<option value="43">Criminal Justice: Forensic Investigation</option>
<option value="34">Early Childhood</option>
<option value="22">Fashion Buying & Merchandising</option>
<option value="35">Fine Arts</option>
<option value="23">Health Services Management A.S.</option>
<option value="24">Health Services Management Technology A.A.S.</option>
<option value="92">Human Resource Management A.A.S.</option>
<option value="44">Human Services</option>
<option value="25">International Business</option>
<option value="36">Liberal Arts & Sciences: Childhood Education</option>
<option value="49">Liberal Arts & Sciences: Communication Arts</option>
<option value="50">Liberal Arts & Sciences: General Studies</option>
<option value="52">Liberal Arts & Sciences: Social Science</option>
<option value="51">Liberal Arts and Sciences: Humanities</option>
<option value="26">Marketing A.A.S.</option>
<option value="27">Medical Coder/Transcriptionist Certificate</option>
<option value="45">Music Industry</option>
<option value="28">Paralegal</option>
<option value="46">Photographic Technology</option>
<option value="47">Radio/Television Broadcasting</option>
<option value="91">Science A.S.</option>
<option value="29">Small Business Management</option>
<option value="30">Small Business Management: Certificate</option>
<option value="48">Teaching Assistant: Certificate</option>
<option value="31">Travel & Tourism: Hospitality & Events Management</option>
<option value="32">Website and E-Business Development</option>
EDIT: I want to use GREP, within textwrangler

Answer 1

Just remove the value attributes. <option> by default takes a value of it's content.
<option value="Accounting">Accounting</option>
is equivalent to:
<option>Accounting</option>
Edit: using sed you can do
sed -r s/' value="[0-9]+"'//g

Answer 2

I assume this means you want:
<option value="14">Foobar</option>
To become:
<option value="Foobar">Foobar</option>
If so, here's the Javascript. I assume the select variable contains the surrounding <select> tag DOM element, e.g. by form.nameOfselect.
for ( var option : select.options ) {
option.value = option.text;
}

Answer 3

Under Linux:
sed 's|<option value="[^"]*">\([^<>]*\)</option>|<option value="\1">\1</option>|g'

Answer 4

If your HTML is well-formed, this will do the trick:
Regex:
(?<=<option) value="\d+"
Replace with the empty string.
In HTML, option values fall back automatically to the displayed text, if no value attribute is present.

Answer 5

You've added that you want to perform the operation in a text editor. I wrote something assuming you'd want to use php, and I'll let it stand here because I think it's important.
Anyway, using TextWrangler (or any other text editor), replace
<option value="[^"]*">([^<]*)</option>
with
<option value="\1">\1</option>
As you're mostly active in the php tag, I assume you're asking for a solution in php. However, let me begin this answer with an advice: If you are looking for a way, state your goal, not a technology you think is suitable. regexps work, but this is far easier in simplexml:
$xml = str_replace("&", "&", $xml); // Fix errors in your XML
$doc = simplexml_load_string($xml);
foreach ($doc->xpath("//option") as $o) {
$o["value"] = "" . $o;
}
$xml = $doc->asXML();
If you insist on using a regexps, you can do so:
$xml = preg_replace(
'#<option value="[^"]*">([^<]*)</option>#',
'<option value="$1">$1</option>', $xml);

Answer 6

It can be made a bit more general, but it works when there are no other attributes in the option tag:
/(.*")([^"]+)(">)([^<]+)(.*)/
Then replace the captured string with this:
$1$4$3$4$5
If you're using backslash as the subgroup reference character, replace the dollar signs with backslash.
Tip: There is a great regexp tester online at http://gskinner.com/RegExr/, check it out!

Answer 7

I haven't tested this, but I believe this will work, using jQuery.
$('option').each(function(elm) { $(this).val($(this).text()); });