Regex help required

Question

I am trying to replace two or more occurences of
(like


) tags together with two



Answer 1

You can do that changing a little your regex:

Pattern brTagPattern = Pattern.compile("<\\s*br\\s*/\\s*>\\s*<\\s*br\\s*/\\s*>", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE | Pattern.DOTALL);

This will ignore every spaces between two
. If you just want exactly 2 or three, you can use:

Pattern brTagPattern = Pattern.compile("<\\s*br\\s*/\\s*>(\\s){2,3}<\\s*br\\s*/\\s*>", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE | Pattern.DOTALL);