Dreamweaver Regular Expression Help

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[yummybanas]

Hello everyone,

I have many codes I'm trying to search + replace. Here's an example:

<A href="http://www.fruits.net/click-1963151-10399388" target=_blank>Fruits are good</A>* - Fruits are healthy and good for you.<IMG height=1 src="http://www.banana.com/image-1963151-10399388" width=1 border=0>

I want to search for everything between

<IMG height=1 src="http://www.banana.com/image-1963151-10399388" width=1 border=0>

so I went to dreamweaver and searched this:

<A href="http://www.fruits.net/click-1963151-10399388" target=_blank>Fruits are good</A>* - Fruits are healthy and good for you.<

>

I thought the regular expression

would find everything between < >?

I'd appreciate any help!

[yummybanas]

Hmm .. looks like forum codes messed the characters.

Here it is again, with added spaces [ * ]

<A href="http://www.fruits.net/click-1963151-10399388" target=_blank>Fruits are good</A>* - Fruits are healthy and good for you.<[ * ]>

[jtara]

I'm not familiar specifically with Dreamweaver regular expressions. However, I did a quick search, and they seem to follow the conventions of Unix regular expressions.

It's hard to tell just what you wrote, due to the reformatting. However, I assume you used .* to match everything inside the IMG tag.

. matches "any character". * says match 0 or more of the previous character (e.g. "any character").

The problem is that * is "greedy". It wants to match the LONGEST string possible. So, it would match everything up to the LAST ">" in your file!

Instead of .* you need to use (hope this comes out...):

[^>]*

This says match a string of 0 or more of any character other than >. So, the match will stop just before the first >, rather than the last >.