Question

I have this html, and I want to replace the numeric value within value='##' with the value between <option>value</option>

For example: <option value='16'>Accounting</option>, I want to know the regex it’d take to automatically change it to <option value='Accounting'>Accounting</option>

I plan on doing it to this entire list.

<option value='16'>Accounting A.A.S.</option> <option value='15'>Accounting A.S.</option> <option value='33'>Art Studies</option> <option value='18'>Business Administration A.A.S.</option> <option value='17'>Business Administration A.S.</option> <option value='20'>Computer Network Technician</option> <option value='21'>Computer Support Specialist</option> <option value='40'>Criminal Justice A.A.S.</option> <option value='39'>Criminal Justice A.S.</option> <option value='37'>Criminal Justice: Corrections Certificate</option> <option value='41'>Criminal Justice: Cybersecurity</option> <option value='42'>Criminal Justice: Economic Crime</option> <option value='43'>Criminal Justice: Forensic Investigation</option> <option value='34'>Early Childhood</option> <option value='22'>Fashion Buying & Merchandising</option> <option value='35'>Fine Arts</option> <option value='23'>Health Services Management A.S.</option> <option value='24'>Health Services Management Technology A.A.S.</option> <option value='92'>Human Resource Management A.A.S.</option> <option value='44'>Human Services</option> <option value='25'>International Business</option> <option value='36'>Liberal Arts & Sciences: Childhood Education</option> <option value='49'>Liberal Arts & Sciences: Communication Arts</option> <option value='50'>Liberal Arts & Sciences: General Studies</option> <option value='52'>Liberal Arts & Sciences: Social Science</option> <option value='51'>Liberal Arts and Sciences: Humanities</option> <option value='26'>Marketing A.A.S.</option> <option value='27'>Medical Coder/Transcriptionist Certificate</option> <option value='45'>Music Industry</option> <option value='28'>Paralegal</option> <option value='46'>Photographic Technology</option> <option value='47'>Radio/Television Broadcasting</option> <option value='91'>Science A.S.</option> <option value='29'>Small Business Management</option> <option value='30'>Small Business Management: Certificate</option> <option value='48'>Teaching Assistant: Certificate</option> <option value='31'>Travel & Tourism: Hospitality & Events Management</option> <option value='32'>Website and E-Business Development</option> 

EDIT: I want to use GREP, within textwrangler

Answer 1

Just remove the value attributes. <option> by default takes a value of it’s content.

<option value='Accounting'>Accounting</option> 

is equivalent to:

<option>Accounting</option> 

Edit: using sed you can do

sed -r s/' value='[0-9]+''//g