Regular Expression Help

[nibbi]

I need to remove style content code from within <td> tags on hundreds of html pages. I figure the easiest way to do this would be a regular expression and a text editor.

So, anyone here know how to write a regular expression to turn this...

<td height="15" class="xl24" style="height:11.25pt">

Into this...

<td>

Thanks

[Lycanthrope]

Maybe this can help you: http://www.htmlworkshop.com/srhtml98.html

[com]

I need to remove style content code from within <td> tags on hundreds of html pages. I figure the easiest way to do this would be a regular expression and a text editor.

So, anyone here know how to write a regular expression to turn this...

<td height="15" class="xl24" style="height:11.25pt">

Into this...

<td>
Thanks

simple the hardest bit is you may have to debug some of my escaping...

in VI:

%s/\<td height\=\"15\" class\=\"xl24\" style\=\"height:11.25pt\"\>/\<td\>/g

[com]

you may or may not need to escape the colon and period... plus some of the <> may not need to be escaped although doing so shouldnt hurt the expression. hope this helps, im running out the door to LA or id test it for ya! ciao!

[Dynamix]

Is it just <TD> tags? If so I can write something real quick to do it for you

[nibbi]

in VI:

%s/\<td height\=\"15\" class\=\"xl24\" style\=\"height:11.25pt\"\>/\<td\>/g

Actually, the contents of the tags contain many, many different variations... so that won't work. I need to be able to clear out *anything* that is within the tag.

[nibbi]

Is it just <TD> tags? If so I can write something real quick to do it for you

Yes, just <td> tags. Thank you.

[com]

shit well last tidbit before I leave, the character $ means "end of", do a little reading on your regexes will show you how to do delete from <td -through end of line or statement and close it off with a >.

%s means match the following string
%s/shit/fuck/g means replace all instances of shit with fuck. ^ is beginning of doc or line $ is end. good luck wish i had more time! ciao

[nibbi]

Got something to work:

Search for this:
<td[^>]*>

Replace with this:
<td>

This was done in TextPad.

[Dynamix]

http://www.pimpts.com/dl/tdslicer.exe

Drag and drop files from Windows Explorer onto this. File is saved as the original but appended with _new..

ie:
original - c:\file.html
new - c:\file_new.html

Only parses .html and .htm files

[nibbi]

http://www.pimpts.com/dl/tdslicer.exe

Cool tool, Thanks.

I used it on a few of the files and it worked perfectly. I used TextPad for the rest. Seemed to do the job faster.

Thanks again for helping me with this.