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Mardulia

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Jul 2, 2012, 9:59:13 AM7/2/12

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This is not strictly speaking a Joomla question- but I bet someone out there will know the answer.

Why does a GREP search not find this: <div.+?</div>

I want to use GREP to strip out 15 or so instances of these tags and what's between them: <div class="result-description"> and </div> But GREP only gives me an annoying beep and wont find this. I can do it all by hand of course, but it's driving me crazy that this isn't working.

FYI: I'm using Textwrangler to clean the code out of some source code so I can use the copy in a newsletter, and I'm doing it this way to retain the a tags.

Any advice?

Thanks A.

Matt Thomas

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Jul 2, 2012, 11:05:38 AM7/2/12

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Hi Andrea,

With Textwrangler using the PCRE flavor of regex, I tested this at http://www.regextester.com/ and it seems to work. Both <div.+?</div> and <div.+</div> matched <div class="result-description">bob</div> of <div class="result-description">bob</div><span>.

Could this be an issue with Textwrangler versus being an issue with your expression?

Best,

Matt Thomas

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Lead Developer Construct Template Development Framework

Phone: 203.632.9322
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