Question

How can I search and replace in way described below. I would like have texts between > and < from this text:

<option value="something">Text a</option>
<option value="abc">Test</option>
<option value="abc1">System</option>

After search and replace I would like have:

Text a+Test+System

So for </option> I can do Search and Replace like that:

</option>\r\n replace to +

But how can I search and replace texts contains different value in here: <option value="something">? I tried with

<option value="*">

but it seems not working.

Can I do these two Search and Replace in one Search and Replace dialog?

Answer 1

You can achieve this in two simple steps:

First search for <option value=".*"> and select the search mode to regular expression and replace it with empty string.

Secondly, replace </option>\r\n with + and use the search mode extended for this replacement.

Hope this will solve your problem.