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Search and Replace a Part of a Regular Expression
Submitted by ELApro on Tuesday, 22 June, 2004 - 20:36
How would one replace only a portion of a regular expression match?
For example, I have lots of entries in my html that have been typed in like..

<a href="http://www.fxweb.holowww.com/tracker/">
WebTracker</a> 
 Web visitor tracking software
<br />

and I want to reformat them all to look like..

<a href="http://www.fxweb.holowww.com/tracker/">
WebTracker</a> Web visitor tracking software
<br />

My Search:  </a>\s*[^<]

in the above case matches: </a> \n W

which I want to replace with: </a> W

How do I grab the W or any other letter that is found by the regular expression term [^<] in order to put it back into the Replace phrase?

How do positional parameters work?
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Find: </a>\s*([^ P
by Anonymous on Tue, 22/06/2004 - 20:49
Find: </a>\s*([^<])
Replace: </a>$1
Putting parens around something stores it in a sub-expression. The first is $1, second is $2, etc... See appendix E in the user's guide, or try a regexps tutorial for more info.
 
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