Replace multiline string with js

Question

probably a silly question. I'm trying to find and replace the following code in javascript. So that code is part of an ajax response with a lot of html code. So, I'm getting the ajax response, and I put it on a string variable, and using replace() I'm trying to remove the following tags combination. Any idea will be appreciated?

    <ul> 


      </li>
    </ul>

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1145208/jquery-how-to-add-li-in-an-existing-ul — Ahmad Syed, Apr 10 '14 at 03:32

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 10 '14 at 03:30

Javascript replace uses RegEx (regular expressions)...

the pattern for your (invalid) tag-combination to remove will be:

result = subject.replace(/<ul>[\t\r\n ]*<\/li>[\t\r\n ]*<\/ul>/ig, "");

this replaces all <ul>'s, followed by an </li>, followed by an </ul> with only "newline, carriage-return, tabulator or space" between them.

Replace multiline string with js

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