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Asked: 2026-05-11T07:09:57+00:00

I need to find a certain chunk from a group of HTML files and

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I need to find a certain chunk from a group of HTML files and delete it from them all. The files are really hacked up HTML, so instead of parsing it with HtmlAgility pack as I was trying before, I would like to use a simple regex.

the section of html will always look like this:

<CENTER>some constant text <img src=image.jpg> more constant text:   variable section of text</CENTER>

All of the above can be any combination of upper and lower case, and notice that it is img src=image.jpg and not img src=’image.jpg’… And there can be any number of white space characters in between the constant characters.

here are some examples:

    <CENTER>This page has been visited  <IMG SRC=http://place.com/image.gif ALT='alt text'>times since 10th July 2007 </CENTER>

or

    <center>This page has been visited  <IMG src='http://place.com/image.gif' Alt='Alt Text'>  times since 1st October 2005</center>

What do you think would be a good way to match this pattern?

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  1. How much of that text is needed to uniquely identify the target? I would try this first:

    @'(?is)<center>\s*This\s+page\s+has\s+been\s+visited.*?</center>'
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