Re: Automating an atypical search & replace

On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:08:48 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:

These occurrences are consistently of the form
    <span class='add'>arbitrary_text</span>
 
I wish to delete "<span class='add'>" and *ASSOCIATED* "</span>".

This is beyond the abilities of regular expressions. This is the point
where you need to use an actual HTML/XML-parsing library.

See also
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags>.