Question

I am trying to strip the content from between the h2 tags in a string using a Regex in C#:

<h2>content needs removing</h2> other content...

I have the following Regex, which according to the Regex buddy software I used to test it, should work, but it doesn’t:

myString = Regex.Replace(myString, @"<h[0-9]>.*</h[0-9]>", String.Empty);

I have another Regex that is run after this to remove all other HTML tags, it is called in the same way and works fine. Can anyone help me out with why this isn’t working?

Answer 1

try this code :

String sourcestring = "<h2>content needs removing</h2> other content...";
String matchpattern = @"\s?<h[0-9]>[^<]+</h[0-9]>\s?";
String replacementpattern = @"";
MessageBox.Show(Regex.Replace(sourcestring,matchpattern,replacementpattern));

[^<]+ is more safer than .+ because it stops collecting where it sees a <.