Thread: Replacing //.+// with <i>.+</i>
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Old 08-04-2019, 08:02 PM   #2
davidfor
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Try:

Code:
\/\/\s(.*?)\s\/\/
The slashes need to be escaped, hence "\/". Then a space, "\s" and "(.*?)" is capture any text but not the space before the closing doubleslashes.

With the replacement:

Code:
<i>\1</i>
Note, for the search, I would probably use:

Code:
\/\/\s*(.*?)\s*\/\/
That covers any amount of whitespace around the text. With either, you need to be careful in case there missing doubleslashes.
Last edited by davidfor; 08-04-2019 at 10:04 PM. Reason: Fixing second example.
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