Find/Replace regex to remove html tags

Question

Using find and replace, what regex would remove the tags surrounding something like this:

Viticulture and Enology

Answer 1

String s = "<option value=\"863\">Viticulture and Enology</option>";
s.replaceAll ("(<option value=\"[0-9]+\">)([^<]+)</option>", "$2")
res1: java.lang.String = Viticulture and Enology

(Tested with scala, therefore the res1:)

With sed, you would use a little different syntax:

echo '<option value="863">Viticulture and Enology</option>'|sed -re 's|(<option value="[0-9]+">)([^<]+)</option>|\2|'

For notepad++, I don't know the details, but "[0-9]+" should mean 'at least one digit', "[^<]" anything but a opening less-than, multiple times. Masking and backreferences may differ. Regexes are problematic, if they span multiple lines, or are hidden by a comment, a regex will not recognize it.

However, a lot of html is genereated in a regex-friendly way, always fitting into a line, and never commented out. Or you use it in throwaway code, and can check your input before.

Answer 2

This works for me Notepad++ 5.8.6 (UNICODE)

search : <option value="\d+">(.*?)</option>

replace : $1

Be sure to select "Regular expression" and ". matches newline"

Answer 3

This works perfectly for me:

• Select "Regular Expression" in "Find" Mode.
• Enter [<].*?> in "Find What" field and leave the "Replace With" field empty.
• Note that you need to have version 5.9 of Notepad++ for the ? operator to work.

as found here: digoCOdigo - strip html tags in notepad++

Answer 4

I have done by using following regular expression:

Find this : <.*?>|</.*?>

and

replace with : \r\n (this for new line)

By using this regular expression (<.*?>|</.*?>) we can easily find value between your HTML tags like below:

I have input:

<otpion value="123">1</option><otpion value="1234">2</option><otpion value="1235">3</option><otpion value="1236">4</option><otpion value="1237">5</option> 

I need to find values between options like 1,2,3,4,5

and got below output :

Answer 5

Something like this would work (as long as you know the format of the HTML won't change):

<option value="(\d+)">(.+)</option>