Regular expression find and replace

Question

I have a really poorly formatted XML file and I am looking to replace the names of some of the tags.

For example...

<column name="id">1</column> 

should become

<id>1</id>

I have over 7000 entries and don't fancy doing this by hand. I am using Dreamweaver's Find & Replace. Obviously the value "1" in the example is a dynamic value.

Cheers for any help...

Answer 1

Find:

<column name="id">(\d+)</column>

Replace with

<id>$1</id>

Make sure you check Use regular expression in the dialog box.

See further on Adobe's site .

Answer 2

搜索： <column name="id">(.*)</column>替换为： <id>\\1</id>

Answer 3

A simple python solution, probably easier using Perl:

import re        # regular expression
import sys       # command line arguments

pat = re.compile(r'<column name=\"id\">(\d*)</column>', re.IGNORECASE)

if __name__=='__main__':
    filename = sys.argv[1]

     for line in open(filename):
         matchObj = pat.search(line)
         if matchObj != None:
             s"<id>" + matchObj.group(1) + "</id>"
         else:
             print line