RegExp Replace, except inside an HTML tag

[schnee]

Hi,

I have a piece of text containing HTML code.
I want to replace (in Javascript) what matches a RegExp, but NOT if the
match is inside an HTML tag.
Is it possible without slicing the text into pure text and HTML parts?

For instance:
replace (/"([^"]*?)"/, "? $1 ?")
replaces "quoted text" with ? quoted text ?
But it should not replace
<TD width="100">
with <TD width=? 100 ?>

Any hint?

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[Ben Doom]

I don't think so.  IIRC, JS regex doesn't support negative lookaheads
and lookbehinds, which are really my only idea.  Sorry.

--Ben

Claude Schneegans wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a piece of text containing HTML code.
> I want to replace (in Javascript) what matches a RegExp, but NOT if the
> match is inside an HTML tag.
> Is it possible without slicing the text into pure text and HTML parts?
>
> For instance:
> replace (/"([^"]*?)"/, "? $1 ?")
> replaces "quoted text" with ? quoted text ?
> But it should not replace
> <TD width="100">
> with <TD width=? 100 ?>
>
> Any hint?
>

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[schnee]

 >>I don't think so.

I was affraid to find (at last) something I couldn't do with regex ;-/

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