Regular Expression help

[Rob]

Hi,
I need to convert our word documents to html for our website. I've used
MS Word's "Save as HTML" feature and ran "Microsoft Office HTML Filtrer
2.0" to clean up the code but I am stuck with a lot of additional code
and I want to write a script that will do a custom cleanup.

The Word document has a "Table of Contents" and when I convert, I get
links at the top of my page that link to the appropriate section but I
get code like this:

<a name="_Toc54767 572"></a><a name="_Toc58978 952"></a><a
name="_Toc58980 987"></a><a
name="_Toc58981 749"></a><a name="_Toc90871 301"></a><a
name="_Toc93973 545"></a><a
name="_Toc12611 4863"></a>
<a name="_Toc15739 1168">My Title</a>

I get a whole bunch of empty anchor tags each with a different name and
only the last anchor tag is correct. I would like to use regular
expressions to remove all empty "a" tags.

I know how to use regular expressions with ASP 3.0 but I don't know the
pattern.

Does anyone know the regex.pattern to replace all empty <atags with an
empty string?

Thanks
Rob



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[Alexey Smirnov]

Re: Regular Expression help


"Rob" <robert@hotmail .comwrote in message
news:uMscFjDiHH A.4904@TK2MSFTN GP05.phx.gbl...

Hi,
I need to convert our word documents to html for our website. I've used
MS Word's "Save as HTML" feature and ran "Microsoft Office HTML Filtrer
2.0" to clean up the code but I am stuck with a lot of additional code
and I want to write a script that will do a custom cleanup.
>
The Word document has a "Table of Contents" and when I convert, I get
links at the top of my page that link to the appropriate section but I
get code like this:
>
<a name="_Toc54767 572"></a><a name="_Toc58978 952"></a><a
name="_Toc58980 987"></a><a
name="_Toc58981 749"></a><a name="_Toc90871 301"></a><a
name="_Toc93973 545"></a><a
name="_Toc12611 4863"></a>
<a name="_Toc15739 1168">My Title</a>
>
I get a whole bunch of empty anchor tags each with a different name and
only the last anchor tag is correct. I would like to use regular
expressions to remove all empty "a" tags.
>

Rob, I think something similar to

Set RegularExpressi onObject = New RegExp

With RegularExpressi onObject
..Pattern = "\<a(.|\n)*\>\< \/a\>"
..IgnoreCase = True
..Global = True
End With

ReplacedText = RegularExpressi onObject.Replac e(InitialText, "")

[Evertjan.]

Re: Regular Expression help

Alexey Smirnov wrote on 27 apr 2007 in
microsoft.publi c.inetserver.as p.general:

>
"Rob" <robert@hotmail .comwrote in message
news:uMscFjDiHH A.4904@TK2MSFTN GP05.phx.gbl...

[..]

>>
>I get a whole bunch of empty anchor tags each with a different name
>and only the last anchor tag is correct. I would like to use regular
>expressions to remove all empty "a" tags.
>>

>
Rob, I think something similar to
>
Set RegularExpressi onObject = New RegExp
>
With RegularExpressi onObject
.Pattern = "\<a(.|\n)*\>\< \/a\>"
.IgnoreCase = True
.Global = True
End With
>
ReplacedText = RegularExpressi onObject.Replac e(InitialText, "")

..Pattern = "<a[^>]*>\s*<\/a>"

will do.

=============== ==

However, why [yes, I know it is personal preference] not use a bit of
jscript even if you use vbs in ASP:


<% ' vbs
dim t,result
t="x<a \nhref='bbb'\n </a>\n\n<a href='bbb'x </a>"
result = deleteEmptyAnch ors(t)
%>


<script language='jscri pt' runat='server'>
function deleteEmptyAnch ors(t){
return t.replace(/<a[^>]*>\s*<\/a>/gi,'');
};
</script>


--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[Rob]

Re: Regular Expression help

Thanks Evertjan

I tried the other example "\<a(.|\n)*\>\< \/a\>" but my page was taking
too long to process it. Then I tried your example "<a[^>]*>\s*<\/a>" and
it works great.

Thanks again.

Rob



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