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DrChiper · 04-16-2014, 02:42 AM

I try to remove unwanted "span's" of the form:

Code:

<span class="font1 font2 something">interesting text</span>

and used to use the following regex in find:

Code:

find: <span(.*)>(.*)</span>
replace: \2

However, this no longer works as now *everything* is found up to the terminating <p><crlf> or until a second terminating </span> when this is found earlier just before the terminating <p><crlf>.

It seems that regex behaves now greedier (while dotall is *not* enabled) then before. What am I missing?

04-16-2014, 02:42 AM	#1
DrChiper Bookish Posts: 1,021 Karma: 2003162 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: PC, t1, t2, t3, Clara BW, Clara HD, Libra 2, Libra Color, Nxtpaper 11	regex behaving greedier? I try to remove unwanted "span's" of the form: Code: <span class="font1 font2 something">interesting text</span> and used to use the following regex in find: Code: find: <span(.)>(.)</span> replace: \2 However, this no longer works as now everything is found up to the terminating <p><crlf> or until a second terminating </span> when this is found earlier just before the terminating <p><crlf>. It seems that regex behaves now greedier (while dotall is not enabled) then before. What am I missing?