On Friday 26 September 2008 01:23:23 pm John W. Krahn wrote:
> Jack Gates wrote:
> > s!(<|</)([^\!][A-Z0-9 ]+>)!$1\L$2\E!g;
> > or
> > s/(<|<\/)([^!][A-Z0-9 ]+>)/$1\L$2\E/g;
> >
> > The RE above captures and replaces all HTML tags with lowercase
> > as desired except for any tag that has only one letter such as
> > <P>, <B> or <I>
> >
> > It will get the </B>, </P> and </I>
> >
> > It properly ignores the <!DOCTYPE> tag
> >
> > What is the correct way to write the above RE?
>
> Perhaps this is what you want?
>
> s{ ( < (?!!) /? [[:upper:]]{2,} > | < [[:upper:]]{2,} \s* /> ) }
> {\L$1}xg;
Yours worked with three exceptions it was missing all the single
letter tags open and close and the H 1-6 tags and the tags that had
and element or attribute
A little tweaking and it works. It gets only and all of what I want
it to get.
s{ ( < (?!!) /? [[:upper:][:digit:] ]{1,} > | < [[:upper:]
[:digit:] ]{1,} \s* /> ) } {\L$1}xg;
Thanks.
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