RegEx: how to exclude a tag attribute from a match?

Hello to everybody.

I am not a programmer but a designer, and I am completing a purge of a big database of html files full of usefull tags.

I already know (it was suggested to me) how to strip a specific pair of tag with a specific attribute (class="ArticoloTesto"):

find: (?s)<p[ \t\r\n]+class="ArticoloTesto">(.+?)</p>
replace: \1

Now shoud be nice to find another two commands, if you can please help me. :-)

First:

The opposite of the mentionen command. I mean a way to strip all the P pair tags without the attribute class="ArticoloTesto". So strip P pair with other attribute + P pair without any attribute. All preserving the inside text.

So for exampre an original strings like:

<p class="OtherClass">Disposizioni sulle acque</p>
<p class="ArticoloTesto">Fonte: BOLLETTINO UFFICIALE<br>
DELLA REGIONE TRENTINO</p>
<p>test text</p>

Should became:

Disposizioni sulle acque
<p class="ArticoloTesto">Fonte: BOLLETTINO UFFICIALE<br>
DELLA REGIONE TRENTINO</p>
test text


Second:

How to replace a specific pair tag, with and without a specific attribute, with another tag?

Ex:

from: <span class="ArticoloTesto">same text</span>
to: <p class="ArticoloTesto">same text</p>


Thank you in advance for any of your replay, anyway.

ps: I am useing this command on advanced find and replace software based on a perl engine regex. Ultra Edit in particulary.

Thank you so much.

Raf.

Hello, Raf,

1) <p> tag without "ArticoloTesto" class:



I'm not sure if UltraEdit supports lookahead, but it works in PHP and in my search-and-replace tool.

2) change <span class="ArticoloTesto"> to <p class="ArticoloTesto">

Thank you very much, abareplace :-)

I was able answer my second question.. I realize it some minutes after my post but ...
...your answer of my first, most important, question was so so utile!!

<p(?![ \t\r\n]+class="ArticoloTesto").*?>(.+?)</p>

Great!

Thanks one more time ;-)

Raf.

A last question, if I am not bothering you.

I really have quite finished the work, but I still want some step forward.

I have for example this HTML tag:

<title>alwaysthesame</title>
and later
<p class="ArticoloTitoloPrincipale">different text for each file</p>

I would like to copy different text for each file and paste it over alwaysthesame.

In that way I can have a title corresponding to the text inside the only one tag p class="ArticoloTitoloPrincipale" of the page (wich is the title of the document, as you can imagine).

If it's not too complex, I wonder to can correct the absence of a corresponding title in each of my html files.

Thank you in any case :-)

Raf.

Please try:

Yes, abareplace.

It works perfectly!!

It's a very complex command for me (backreferences seems not easy..). I've tried a lot before asking help out there, but I really have no skills on it.. I am a graphic designer and photographer in Italy.

I have to admit that Perl knowlage gives a lot o freedom!!

My best regards.

Raffaele.