On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:02:28AM -0700, Dylan Reinhardt wrote:
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 07:49, Paul Winkler wrote:
hmm... doesn't the tags pattern make the other two redundant?
Not that I can see. You may be reading the last expression left-to-right, but it's *evaluated* inside (right) to outside (left).
no, i was just not really paying attention to what the different expressions would match. sorry!
In some cases (<B>, for example) you want to remove only the tags. In other cases (<script>, <style>) you want to remove the enclosed contents too.
right, i don't know how this simple fact escaped me.
I'm sure it's possible to come up with a single, highly-clever regex that does it all,
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