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Hello,

This should be simple, but is beyond me:

I need to eliminate the tag:

<span class="mozp"></span>

surrounding anything:

<span class="mozp">Tath�gata single word or even paragraph with <br /></span>

Any help much appreciated.

I did a search and there is mention that this is not possible in TextPad, but is possible in Wild-edit which I also have.

Do you mean you want to remove the entire span element, that is, the start tag and end tag and everything in between?

If so, try
<span\b.*?</span>

If a span element may extend over more than one line, try
<span\b[\s\S]*?</span>
or
(?s:<span\b.*?</span>)

Thanks Ben! Yes I wish to eliminate the tag and preserve the contents and it is possible the tag could extend over more than one line.

I'll give this a shot later and get back one way or the other.

You are a real asset to Helios! So many years you have devoted to helping people on this board!

Thank you. You're welcome.

These are tags:
<span>
and
</span>

This is an element:
<span> content </span>

Do you want to remove the tags and keep the content? If so, search for
</?span\b[^>]*>
and replace with nothing.

Hello Ben,

I see I must be more specific as to what I need.

This is the tag I need to delete:

<span class="mozp"> xxx </span>

keeping the element xxx.

your </?span\b[^>]*>
captures all span tags which goes too far.

<span class="mozp"> xxx </span>
is an element, not a tag.

xxx
is content, not an element.

If I search using the regex
</?span\b[^>]*>
in the element
<span class="mozp"> xxx </span>
and replace each match with nothing, what remains is the content
xxx
(with a space at each end).

If that is not the result you want please explain what is.

Most likely he doesn't want to delete any SPAN element, but only those which exactly look as pictured (i.e. with that CLASS attribute)...?

Hello,

Yes, Amigo has stated the problem correctly.

I want to delete exactly this:

<span class="mozp"></span>

Only this specific tag; not all span tags.

while leaving the content inside the tag as is.

The regex supplied deletes the front <span class="mozp"> but leaves the content AND the close </span>

This is to be done on multiple files with multiple instances likely in most files where it occurs. So I am assuming this is a job for WildEdit.

The regex
</?span\b[^>]*>
matches opening tags and closing tags. Perhaps you included a space at the end of it.

If the opening tags you are concerned with all look exactly like this
<span class="mozp">
then try searching for
<span class="mozp">([\s\S]*?)</span>
or
(?s:<span class="mozp">(.*?)</span>)
and replacing with
$1

Hello Ben,

Both of those appear to work, but with \1 rather than $1 for the replacement.

I have tried these on both the test window and on a real html file.

I confess: I spent several hours trying to make these work and failed because: 1. the sample I used for testing used <p class="mozp"> (another tag I was looking for previously; and
2. the html file I was testing on lacked a header and footer. Just saved a text file as html so the content was apparently not recognized in some way.

Many thanks for your help here, and apologies all around for my confusion.

PS: Like some others recently, when pressing 'submit' I get DEBUG MODE but the post seems to go up eventually.

You wrote:test window

You must be using WildEdit. My suggestion works in TextPad 8, which uses (more or less) the same regex package.

You wrote:with \1 rather than $1 for the replacement

Have you been tinkering with the options?

Hello Ben,

Tinkering with options in WE. Yes. I normally have this set to the PERL syntax, but with all the failures I used all three for each.

Aside from the syntax options I didn't alter any other options.


PS: Again:

DEBUG MODE

Line : 185
File : smtp.php