Question

I'm trying to ReReplace the actual beginning/ending tags within a string.  
For example, I want to replace  

<p class="style4">My Title Is This<p>

with

<h2>My Title Is This</h2>

I wrote the code below, which seems to find the tags properly within my string, but it's replacing it with <h2>(.+?)</h2>

<cfset this.text2 = ReReplaceNoCase(getThis.statictext, '<p[^>]+class="style4"[^>]*>(.+?)</p>', '<h2>(.+?)</h2>', "ALL")>

Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here?

Thanks

Answer 1

In place of this: '<h2>(.+?)</h2>' you’ll want to use the backreference \1 to refer to the subexpression (.+?):

<cfset this.text2 = ReReplaceNoCase(getThis.statictext, '<p\s[^>]+class="style4"[^>]*>(.+?)</p>', '<h2>\1</h2>', "ALL")>

Hope this helps.

UPDATE: Edited per Mike Causer’s suggestion below.