Notepad++ regular expression find to include spaces and special characters

Question

I have this regular expression (below), right now it is finding words in notepad++ (refer post How to fix the xml file which missing closing tags )

(<(.+)>[a-zA-Z]+)

I want to extend this and include white spaces, special characters '-&#/ etc

I want the regular expression to find words with spaces, words with special characters and words ending with numbers etc..

SOME - THANK YOU    
ABC #123 CITY ST - 0622805065    
201312161    
BABI'S    
ST - 621    
01-07-14 STORE #739 CITY ST     
FUEL GAS #06 01/06 #000294779    
XYZ 1221 1320 774712 9125 W. KMN
SOME - THANK, YOU

Answer 1

You should really take a look at a website like http://regexpal.com/ to learn the basics of regular expressions. It is a very useful skill to have. Anyways, this regex will look after a starting tag for a string that doesn't contain < , \\r , or \\n .

In Notepad++, find

(<(.+)>[^<\r\n]+)

and replace with

\1</\2>