Question

I have a situation where I need to find 2 groups in some text and replace $1 with $2.

I’m not sure it’s possible. Also, I don’t want to use php but simple search and replace.

See here or see this text:

<li>
<div>
    <a href="/video/testimonials/video-477" class="shadow"></a>
</div><div class="videoTb_title">Kevin Austin</div>
</li>

What I want is to find video-477 and replace it with Kevin Austin.

This is just an example, I have more li’s that have different names and video id’s

Any ideas?
Thanks

Answer 1

Assuming /video/testimonials is actually part of most of your urls, you can capture and replace with the following regex:

(<a[^"]+\"/video/testimonials/)([^"]+)(\".+</a>\r?\n?.*?videoTb_title\"\>)([^<]+)</div>

to be replaced with

$1$4$3$4$5</div>

Keep in mind, your example accepted: href=”/video/testimonials/Kevin Austin”, which might be considered bad practice to use whitespace in urls.