From: Lars Haugseth <njus@...>
Date: 2008-08-13T23:47:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression: anything except

* Gunther Gunt <gunther.thevenin@airbus.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to create a regular expression with the following rule:
> 
> my text is:
> <TEXT id=''>blabla</TEXT>
> I want to replace <TEXT*> with something
> 
> "<TEXT id=''>".gsub(/the magic regular expression/,"replacement")
> ==> replacementblabla</TEXT>
> 
> but i want also that
> "<TEXT>blabla</TEXT>".gsub(/the magic regular expression/,"replacement")
> returns the same result
> ==> replacementblabla</TEXT>
> 
> and
> <TEXT *anything*>blabla</TEXT>".gsub(/the magic regular
> expression/,"replacement")
> returns the same result
> ==> replacementblabla</TEXT>

/<TEXT[^>]*>/

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