Regular Expressions

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#1

I have a text document that contains various mark up tags such as </verse>. It s a list of song lyrics from OpenLP.

I want to strip off all the tags- the <,> and the text between. I know search and replace with Regular Expressions will do it for me, but I have a brain block when it comes to Reg Ex.

Can somebody please tell me how to do this?

Thank you.

#2

Search for: <[^>]*>
Replace with: (nothing)

Explanation:
[^>] matches any character except ">".
[^>]* matches zero or more of such characters.
<[^>]*> matches "<", any text not including ">", and ">", i.e. everything from "<" up to and including the first ">" thereafter.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker

#3

Thank you, Brian.

That was exactly what I needed

Keith