Searching in between text

[mcai8rw2]

Is there a way I can search and replace for certain tags that contain other text.

e.g. HTML FILES have a <title> GOOSE DOG MONKEY </TITLE> tag.

I need to search and replace this for ANOTHER title tag. Obviously one cant search/replace for <title> because that still leaves the other portion of the sentence.

thanks

[ben_josephs]

I'm not sure exactly want you want to achieve.

You can search for entire elements including their beginning and ending tags (provided both tags are on the same line) with the regular expression

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<title>.*</title>

This will not work if a line may contain more than one element, as in

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one <title> GOOSE </title> element and another <title> MONKEY </title> element

because the match will extend from the first beginning tag to the last ending tag. If the contained text does not contain any '<' characters, you can prevent this with

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<title>[^<]*</title>

In WildEdit you can prevent such overlong matches more effectively with a non-greedy repeat:

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<title>.*?</title>

With WildEdit you can also search for text that extends over variable numbers of lines.

[mcai8rw2]

No you hit the nail on the head the first time!

<title>.*</title> was perfect it does just what I need.