[cybmole]

this is a regex question - not really a sigil one, but since this is where the helpful regex experts are, I'm hoping one will step in and advise

I want to clean up some .xml files & am thinking regex in notepad++ could do the job if I can figure out the expression.

I want to zap all chunks that look like the example below, where the key search term is X-Fi.

for anything with X-Fi in that 2nd line I want to delete the whole block- ambitious I know but can that be done ?

<RemoteButton>
<Name>X-Fi 24-bit Wheel Button</Name>
<MidiSignal>0A 41 44 09 76</MidiSignal>
<USBSignal>02 C1 44 89 76</USBSignal>
<ButtonType>btKeyboardEvent</ButtonType>
<KeyCode>173</KeyCode>
</RemoteButton>

logically, I have to find the start phrase <RemoteButton>\s*<Name>X-Fi , look forward to locate the matching </Remote... & delete everything found in between. I also have to cope with intermediate line feeds, white space & / characters..

hmm - I seem to be solving my own question as i type...

will a simple (.*) suffice i.e. find
<RemoteButton>\s*<Name>X-Fi(.*)</RemoteButton>


well i can load the xml into sigil & the above almost works, ( it leaves some mysterious de> entries ) but I can't see how to then save as xml ( sigil v4)

i try the same expression in notepad++ & it does NOT work - either N+= cannot do multi-line or it uses different regex syntax ?