[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by aknight2015

[...] to remove links like <a href="13th_Black_Crusade" title="wikilink"> with nothing, or a space if needed.

Search: <a href="[^"]+" title="wikilink">
Replace: <a>

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In Plain English, what does this regex do?

There's 3 key parts of the Search:

1. <a href="

• = Look for the beginning of the <a> link.

2. [^"]+

• = Look for 1 OR MORE "any character that ISN'T a double quote".
• In Regex-speak, the symbols:
  
  • [] = Anything inside these brackets? "Look for THIS LIST OF CHARACTERS in this spot!"
    
  • The ^ sign is special, and says "Hey, you see the characters inside the brackets? Find anything that's NOT these!"
    
  • The + sign says "Look for 1 OR MORE of the previous thing."
    

3. " title="wikilink">

• = Look for the rest of that <a> link.

Replace with:

• A blank <a>

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Before:

<a href="13th_Black_Crusade" title="wikilink">
<a href="14th_Black_Crusade" title="wikilink">
<a href="15th_Black_Crusade" title="wikilink">
<a href="BlahBlahBlah" title="wikilink">

After:

<a>
<a>
<a>
<a>

Originally Posted by aknight2015

I've tried reading the documentation about Regex, and it's all gibberish to me. I have no idea what each symbol means or does and the guides I've tried to read approaches the subject as if I'm familiar with similar languages. I just need to know what I can type, and what each things means/represents

See my recent post from last month:

• 2022: /r/LibreOffice: "How to target things in Regular Expressions which it uses as code?"

I did step-by-step breakdowns on some Regex, plus I linked to a ton of my previous posts about the subject.

Many of my MobileRead topics even have color-coded regex, so you can see which piece does what.