Question

In Javascript or ruby, i need to find a substring using regex and remove it from my main string which could contain several substrings.

My main string is

 My <style type="">first</style> name <style>is</style> xyz <style>abc</style>.

I need to remove all the text within the style tag including the style tag.

I have tried the following expression and several other variations

(<style .*>[^<>]*?<\/style>)
(<style .*>[^<>]*<\/style>)

The resulting string i want is

My name xyz.

but i could not find the right way. What I get instead is

<style type="">first</style> name <style>is</style> xyz <style>abc</style>

What is the correct regex for this?

Note: cannot use any JS libraries like jquery and others.

Answer 1

This should do it:

str = 'My <style type="">first</style> name <style>is</style> xyz <style>abc</style>.';
str = str.replace("<style[^>]*?>.*?</style>","");