This is my task: I have written lots of texts that I transform into HTML code, TeX code or other "printing languages" using an Gawk script (I work on a Windows computer using cygwin for Unix-like tasks like running shell scripts). Within the text special characters are coded in a special way so they can be replaced with codes which ...

I want to change a font element to an XHTML compatible variant. e.g. find <font face="arial" size="1" color="red" >hello world</font> replace <span style='font-family: arial; font-size: 1; color: red;'>hello world</span>   note: - the font attributes can change order - ...

Greetings.  I have some problems using a Regex replace for converting the following BBCode: string bbCode = " [ color=red]Red[/color]"; Regex regExp = new Regex(@"\[ color=([^\]]+)\]([^\]]+)\[\/color\]"); string htmlCode = regExp.Replace(bbCode, "<span style=\'color: $1\'>$2</span>'); Essentially, ...

I don't own Dreamweaver, but I'll try to help you anyway. Try (<img\b[^>]*?\salt\s*=\s*"[^"]*) in the find field and $1 | appended text here in the replace field. This should also work, if the alt attribute comes after an href attribute.

I would like to make a find/replace Regexp that ignores matches found inside HTML tags. Is there a simple way to do this?   (In case it matters, I'm talking about javascript.)