Search regex for Visual Studio

Question

There have a lot of similar questions on SO. But here is another mental exercise I could not figure out.

Here is the search text:

<span ng-show="vm.formName.fieldName.$error.required">*</span>

Need to replace with just

or

<span>*</span>

Obviously we want to replace ng-show="vm.formName.fieldName.$error.required" with an empty string. I thought some * should be used as wildcard for the ng-show attribute. But how?

Is it possible to use wildcard * to take the place of a string that include quotation marks? And how can we avoid the * character in the text from being replaced?

[Do not use regex to match HTML. Do not use regex to match HTML. Do not use regex to match HTML.](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/237955) — amphetamachine, Jan 20 '15 at 14:53

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 20 '15 at 14:55

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replace(/ng-show="([\s\S]*)"/,'') should do the trick.

Demo: https://regex101.com/r/jH5fE4/1

answered Jan 20 '15 at 14:55

Anurag Peshne

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Thanks. And +1 for using `regex101.com` demo w explanation. – Blaise Jan 20 '15 at 14:58
@Blaise Yes, `regex101.com` can be very handy at times. – Anurag Peshne Jan 20 '15 at 14:59

Search regex for Visual Studio

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