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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://regexadvice.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Acronym Regular Expression : find</title><link>http://regexadvice.com/blogs/acronym_regular_expression/archive/tags/find/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: find</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 (Build: 60809.935)</generator><item><title>The Mission</title><link>http://regexadvice.com/blogs/acronym_regular_expression/archive/2009/12/03/The-Mission.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:45:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d291b357-6366-4006-9008-4266c301325a:57646</guid><dc:creator>GingerKid</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://regexadvice.com/blogs/acronym_regular_expression/comments/57646.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://regexadvice.com/blogs/acronym_regular_expression/commentrss.aspx?PostID=57646</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Hey guys, I am completely new to regular expressions and I barely know any JavaScript. So I have a mission for you, if you choose to accept. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I need a script that can do the following.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Search between two lines of code (I am writing asp)&lt;br /&gt;From&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;!--#include virtual=&amp;quot;/_incs/header2_eng.asp&amp;quot;--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;to&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;!--#include virtual=&amp;quot;/_incs/footer2_eng.asp&amp;quot;--&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And find &amp;#39;NCE&amp;#39; and replace it with &amp;#39;&amp;lt;acronym title=&amp;quot;Networks of Centres of Excellence&amp;quot;&amp;gt;NCE&amp;lt;/acronym&amp;gt;&amp;#39;&lt;br /&gt;But there are many cases that this NCE can show up for example&lt;br /&gt;&amp;#39; NCE &amp;#39;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;#39;NCE, &amp;#39;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;#39;NCE; &amp;#39;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;#39;NCE. &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;#39; NCE&amp;#39;....&lt;br /&gt;The list continues. And I need to have about 100 different Acronym&amp;#39;s. So&amp;nbsp;I basically need a basic template.&lt;br /&gt;My main concern about this is if searching &amp;#39;NCE&amp;nbsp;&amp;#39; and the word is&amp;nbsp;&amp;#39;Once &amp;#39; then it will do a replace. Which is not what&amp;nbsp;I want. So I hear that regular expressions is the best way to do it.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advanced.&lt;/p&gt;
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