On 10/12/07, Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Keith, I think I goofed. If you use an editor that *properly* supports
> regular expressions then what I should have told you to change was
"<^[>]*>"
> without the quotes. That's less-than, circumflex, open-square-bracket,
> greater-than, close-square-bracket, asterisk, greater-than. I forgot that
in
> a proper implementation the asterisk is "greedy" which is why (I think)
you
> lost your text. Even with this you'll lose all the formatting.
>
>

Close: it's "<[^>]*>" (without the quotes, with the caret inside the
brackets).

It means "< followed by any number of 'character-that-is-not-a->' followed
by a >".

mhr

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