@kovid
Thanks for the reference, I couldn't see what I was looking for at first in the help files.
@theducks
Thank you for pointing me to the appropriate non-greedy qualifier. I've now been able to strip out about 1500 pointless <span>...</span> elements from a book.
I did know about the /d+ notation but tend to use /d{1,} out of habit from a different regex variant I used in LibreOffice work.
BobC
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