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[David Fishburn]

I have this string:
<this/><that/>

I want to end up with this:
/>/>

This must be recursive, and there could be other things than just a word:
<this colspan="2"/><that andmore="dd"/>

I have tried a couple of combinations
substitute('<this/><that/>', '\(/>\)\?\zs.\{-}\(/>\)\?', '', 'g')

I can get the first instance, but if there are more than 1 '/>' I get messed up.

Anyone have any good suggestions?

Thanks,
Dave

[Yegappan Lakshmanan]

Hi Dave,

You can try using the following:

substitute(myvar, '.\{-}\(/>\)', '\1', 'g')

- Yegappan

[Erik Hahn]

This works when editing, I don't know how to do that in a script:
:s/[^/<]//g

-Erik

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