Regexp to strip asp tags

[guitardave78]

Hi all is there a way i can strip out the <% and %> and anything in between in a string?

i have tried the regEx.Pattern = "<\%[^>]*\%>"

but i cant get it to escape the % !!

}...the bane of my life!

http://www.fuzzyd.co.uk

 

[espar]

? i use expresso to test regex's - it is very good and free.

your regex works fine in that - so in what environment is it not working and why??

 

[ESquared]

Because * is a greedy match, won't it never get to the next % character? Unless you specifically turn off greedy matches.

[^>] Any number of characters that aren't >

% isn't >

now it's at > and it tries to match

\%>

and fails.

You might need to use a negative lookahead

"<\%([^%](?!>))*\%>"

I am doing this mostly from memory, but I *think* the following expression

([^%](?!>))

means, any number of % signs NOT followed by a greater than.

Of course I could be completely wrong, doing this from memory.

 

[guitardave78]

Hey all, thanks for the responses.
I found the following that worked well...I am a complete noob with regex!!

"<%[\s\S]*?" & Chr(37) & ">"

}...the bane of my life!

http://www.fuzzyd.co.uk

 

[ESquared]

Ah yes, a lazy match works great. I'm glad my suggestion helped you. What would you have done without me? Grin.