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htmlreplacenotepad++
user3691236
user3691236

Reputation: 11

Notepad++ html tag / string (a href) remove

Have 12.000 links which I want delete and only display the Linktext over Notepad

from

<A HREF="/" CLASS="size0verdgr">HOME</A>

to HOME

from

<A HREF="/NEW/" target="_blank">NEW</A>

to NEW

I can Use:

<a href="[^"]*" CLASS="[^"]*">

but there I can only delete the first part of the tag.

Any solutions?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1698

Answers (2)

Erlesand
Erlesand

Reputation: 1535

Open up the Replace interface (Ctrl+H). Change the search mode to "Regular Expression".

In the search field you enter the following pattern, 

<a[^>]*>([^<]+)</a>

It will match any a-tag, and the text in between the tags you can call in the replace field by entering,

\1

Finally, press Replace All and you should be done.

Upvotes: 2

Jegsar
Jegsar

Reputation: 520

from my understanding you want to replace the entire line

<A HREF="/NEW/" target="_blank">NEW</A>

with

NEW

*nix wins

sed -i 's/<A HREF.\+>\(.\+\)<\/A>/\1/' test.txt

Thats the regex pattern so you can run that on any search and replace regex editor. Depending on the editor you may need to remove some back slashes or replace \1 with &1

Upvotes: 1

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