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Reputation: 1625

regex to check beginning and end of string for characters

I've got the following regex

^[\<\!\-\-]\w+?\W?[\-\-\>]$

It is supposed to check the start of a string for <!-- and end of a string for --> with any number of characters in between, including all punctuation and can occur more than once in a string. for example <!--something here? or even this!. --> would return true and also <!--some--><!--thing--> would return true

I also want to create another regex that will replace the <!-- and --> with a blank string. The regex doesn't seem to work. How can i fix it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 321

Answers (1)

Miller
Miller

Reputation: 35198

You use of a character [] with [\<\!\-\-] doesn't make any sense.

To match for that string, all you need is <!--.*?-->

If you want it bounded to the whole string, then yes, you can add the ^ and $ to produce: ^<!--.*?-->$.

Upvotes: 2

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