Re: [libreoffice-users] Regular Expressions

Thank you, Brian.

That was exactly what I needed

Keith


On 10/5/19 1:46 pm, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 11:13 10/05/2019 +1000, Keith Bates wrote:
> > I have a text document that contains various mark up tags such as 
> > </verse>. It's a list of song lyrics from OpenLP. I want to strip off 
> > all the tags- the <,> and the text between. I know search and replace 
> > with Regular Expressions will do it for me, but I have a brain block 
> > when it comes to Reg Ex. Can somebody please tell me how to do this?
>
> Search for: <[^>]*>
> Replace with: (nothing)
>
> Explanation:
> [^>] matches any character except ">".
> [^>]* matches zero or more of such characters.
> <[^>]*> matches "<", any text not including ">", and ">", i.e. 
> everything from "<" up to and including the first ">" thereafter.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker
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