Question

I’m trying to use regexp to parse a string like similar to this:

<tag>Text that is written here. This could happen here: <Inline::~Inline> </tag>

How can I use regexp to replace the “<” and “>” characters from Inline. Problem is that Inline might have a different name and inside the main tag one can see comparisons such as ‘< 20’.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Assuming that the inline tag:

• has the same string in it twice, once preceded by a tilde
• always has the two colons

then this should work:

    String s= "<tag>some text here > 20 <test::~test> and then </tag>";
    s = s.replaceAll("<((\\w+)::~\\2)>","$1");
    System.out.println(s);

regardless what Inline/Test is called.

EDITED – forgot to put TWO colons in 🙂