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cybmole · 01-19-2011, 03:48 AM

was having a frustrating time with find-replace regex last night

- I swear that some times it just sulks and claims to not find any instances of perfectly good expressions, or waits until you re-click the code view window before searching properly -

anyway I gave up building a regex that would alter pairs of opening & closing tags and figured I'd fix them in 2 passes
- so I did something like replace all "<h4" with "<h2", intending to then do replace "</h4" with "</h2> as a 2nd pass - but somehow all of the end pairs had miraculously already fixed themselves

was I seeing things, was this the tidy function helping out, or what ?

if tag pairs can be replaced justt be replacing the opening tag , that would be good to know as the regex building then becomes MUCH simpler!

01-19-2011, 03:48 AM	#1
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	find replace - does it auto-fix closing tqags ??? was having a frustrating time with find-replace regex last night - I swear that some times it just sulks and claims to not find any instances of perfectly good expressions, or waits until you re-click the code view window before searching properly - anyway I gave up building a regex that would alter pairs of opening & closing tags and figured I'd fix them in 2 passes - so I did something like replace all "<h4" with "<h2", intending to then do replace "</h4" with "</h2> as a 2nd pass - but somehow all of the end pairs had miraculously already fixed themselves was I seeing things, was this the tidy function helping out, or what ? if tag pairs can be replaced justt be replacing the opening tag , that would be good to know as the regex building then becomes MUCH simpler!