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Regex to remove CDATA tags

By hiojay | April 12, 2013April 12, 2013 by hiojay

Here’s a regex that I wrote recently to remove CDATA tags from an XML element value: Find What: <!\[CDATA\[(.*)\]\]> Replace With: \1

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Regex to find lines that do not contain a certain string value

By hiojay | December 17, 2012May 5, 2013 by hiojay

Here is a regex that finds only those lines that do not contain the particular string value: “find lines without this string” ^((?!find lines without this string).)*$

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Using Regex to find lines that end with an expression

By hiojay | November 20, 2012December 17, 2012 by hiojay

Here is a regular expression to find lines that end in the word ‘ Fetch’. Note the single space before the word Fetch. ^.* Fetch$ To specify that we need an entire line we place what we’re looking for between ^ and $. To match the parts of the line before our regular expression, we use the .* notation.