Regex 101 Exercise I6 - Remove font directives from HTML

Regex 101 Exercise I6 - Remove font directives from HTML

Remove all <font…> or </font> directives from an HTML string.

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 30, 2006
  I'd run three regexes, myself...
  
  <font> # get rid of font tags with nothing after the "t" in font
  <font(s|r|n).?> # get rid of font tags with stuff after the "t" in font
  </font> # get rid of closing font tags
  
  But I suppose this would do equally well for most data:
  
  </?font.?>
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Anonymous
  January 30, 2006
  </?font[^>]*>
  
  With singleline and ignorecase options set will do the trick.
  
  

• Anonymous
  January 31, 2006
  I'd like to propose an exercise...
  
  Given plaintext containing URLs, make the URLs clickable by adding <a> tags around them.

• Anonymous
  February 01, 2006
  Pattern:
  b(w+://[-w._%d/#]+)b
  
  Replace:
  <a href="$1">$1</a>
  
  Kind of loose, but do you really want to check for well-formed URLs with this too?

• Anonymous
  February 01, 2006
  Oops, missed ?, =, and #
  
  Correct pattern:
  b(w+://[-w._%d/#?=]+)b

• Anonymous
  February 02, 2006
  Semicolons and @ signs, too.
  
  Watch out for URLs that end in a W-class character... those won't have a b on the end.
  
  Bonus points for auto-detecting punctuation on the end and not including it (for example: http://example.com.)
  
  Note both the period and the ) at the end of that last paragraph are not part of the URL.

• Anonymous
  February 02, 2006
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