> Hi Group,
>
> I've a HTML document with all sorts of HTML tags. I nned to provide
> search and replace feature for text in the HTML documents. User can
> enter any phrase to search and any phrase to replace it with. While
> searching, I strip all HMTL tags from the HTML document and search.
> User can select the document(s) s/he wants to replace the desired
> text.
> While replacing, I've issue. How do I replace the string with the new
> one?
> e.g.
> The HTML document may contain:
>
> <li>This is a test document</li> All the  <b>articles</b> here are
> written for general public. <strong>Tip: <strong>If you do not find
> desired articles, please mail <SPAN id="test" style="FONT-WEIGHT:
> bold; COLOR: #ff0000">develo***@test.com</SPAN >
>
> User may want to find
> "All the articles here"
> and replace with
> "all the documents here".
>
> The resultant document could be
> <li>This is a test document</li> All the  documents here are written
> for general public. <strong>Tip: <strong>If you do not find desired
> articles, please mail <SPAN id="test" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR:
> #ff0000">develo***@test.com</SPAN >
>
> So while replacing the string, can I somehow ignore the HTML tags and
> achieve replacement? Rest of the HTML tags must be retained in the
> HTML doc.
> Any thoughts will be appreciated.
>

On Feb 10, 11:53 pm, "Alexey Smirnov" <alexey.smir***@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Feb 7, 1:21 am, mahes***@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi Group,
>
> > I've a HTML document with all sorts of HTML tags. I nned to provide
> > search and replace feature for text in the HTML documents. User can
> > enter any phrase to search and any phrase to replace it with. While
> > searching, I strip all HMTL tags from the HTML document and search.
> > User can select the document(s) s/he wants to replace the desired
> > text.
> > While replacing, I've issue. How do I replace the string with the new
> > one?
> > e.g.
> > The HTML document may contain:
>
> > <li>This is a test document</li> All the  <b>articles</b> here are
> > written for general public. <strong>Tip: <strong>If you do not find
> > desired articles, please mail <SPAN id="test" style="FONT-WEIGHT:
> > bold; COLOR: #ff0000">develo***@test.com</SPAN >
>
> > User may want to find
> > "All the articles here"
> > and replace with
> > "all the documents here".
>
> > The resultant document could be
> > <li>This is a test document</li> All the  documents here are written
> > for general public. <strong>Tip: <strong>If you do not find desired
> > articles, please mail <SPAN id="test" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR:
> > #ff0000">develo***@test.com</SPAN >
>
> > So while replacing the string, can I somehow ignore the HTML tags and
> > achieve replacement? Rest of the HTML tags must be retained in the
> > HTML doc.
> > Any thoughts will be appreciated.
>
> string sourceTxt = "....";
>
> string searchTxt = "All the articles here";
> string replaceTxt = "all the documents here";
>
> string searchPattern = searchTxt.replace(" ","(.*?)");
> string replaceString = replaceTxt;
>
> int i = 0;
>
> while (replaceString.indexOf(" ") > -1) {
> i+=1;
> replaceString = Regex.Replace(" ", "$" + i.toString(), 1);
>
> }
>
> string finalTxt = Regex.Replace(sourceTxt, searchTxt, replaceString);- Hide quoted text -
>

On Feb 14, 2:21 pm, "Alexey Smirnov" <alexey.smir***@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 13, 7:31 pm, mahes***@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hey Alexey,
> > Thanks a ton. Thats a great solution.
> > There is a small hitch though. If the string to be replaced is bigger
> > that the searched string, the replacement string carries extra $3,$4.
> > I'm counting the words in both the strings and whateever remains goes
> > in the last replacement.
> > Hope this is the right way.
> > Regards,
> > Mahesh
>
> Yup, it could be a problem. Maybe we have to look for a better
> approach.

> On Feb 14, 2:21 pm, "Alexey Smirnov" <alexey.smir***@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 13, 7:31 pm, mahes***@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > > Hey Alexey,
> > > Thanks a ton. Thats a great solution.
> > > There is a small hitch though. If the string to be replaced is bigger
> > > that the searched string, the replacement string carries extra $3,$4.
> > > I'm counting the words in both the strings and whateever remains goes
> > > in the last replacement.
> > > Hope this is the right way.
> > > Regards,
> > > Mahesh
>
> > Yup, it could be a problem. Maybe we have to look for a better
> > approach.
>
> Moreover, (.*?) will not only ignore HTML tags, it may ignore whole
> sentenses. e.g. if I have something like
> "This is a test where we need to replace words. Also test words"
> and I search for "test words" and try to replace with "test
> sentences", it will replace in 2 places because in first sentence we
> have "test" and "word" seperated by many other words which we are
> trying to ignore. Is there any way we can say only if its HTML tag,
> replace?
> Thanks for all the help. I desperately need a solution to this.
> Mahesh