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  Re: Regular Expression help?
 
(...) I'm assuming you mean perl's regexps? (...) I should note that you probably will have more reliable code if you didn't use a regexp here, but instead parse the html with one of the HTML::* modules... but, regexp is more fun :) (...) how about (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Regular Expression help?
 
(...) Hmmm, actually I am using an html editor that allows extended searches using regular expressions, so I am somewhat limited by what that allows. I should have been more specific. (...) That looks like it would work nicely, but as I said above, (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Regular Expression help?
 
(...) oh! well, seems that it has a similar syntax :) Anyway, the actual regexp here is: <img[^>]+border="[0-9]*" Hope that will help. By the way, if you need to edit hundreds of lines, using an automated process might save you hours and hours of (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Regular Expression help?
 
(...) I think this will only find img tags that have a border property, but I need to find img tags that are missing the border property. (...) Thanks for the kind offer. :-) I suspect once we can isolate the lines that are offensive that it will (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Regular Expression help?
 
(...) doh, of course. However, unless your editor allows to do negative lookaheads, I don't think you can use a regexp to find a missing border tag. (...) hmmm. One way to do it would be to replace all the img tags that DO have the border attribute, (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Regular Expression help?
 
(...) Ah. I had my little O'Reilly Perl 5 pocket reference out and was playing with "zero-width positive/negative look-ahead/behind assertion"s before I began this thread, but since I haven't used them before I wasn't sure how they worked. In any (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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