irregular expression

[Dar Scott]

On Jul 15, 2006, at 7:34 AM, Mark Greenberg wrote:

>> put replacetext(myVar,"</?a[^>]*>","") into myVar

>  but why do you have /? in your RegEx string?

I think I can guess that one, Mark.  From one of my pages:

       <a href="rev.html">Revolution</a><br>

I think Terry's intent is to change that to this:

       Revolution<br>

So both the <a and </a must be matched.  The optional slash does that.

(The regex does not handle a ">" in an attribute string, say, for  
title, but maybe there cannot be one.)

Dar Scott