Replace start and end text with empty

Question

I have html like bellow

<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv ...............
    ...................
</head> ..............
...............
</html>

I want to replace <head>.....</head> with ""(empty) and final string should look like this

<html lang="en">..............
....................
</html>

I tried with this but no luck nothing changed. any help is appreciated

 myStr= myStr.replaceAll("^<head>.*</head>$", "");

 System.out.println(myStr);

[don´t use regex for html](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/590747/using-regular-expressions-to-parse-html-why-not) — SomeJavaGuy, Aug 14 '15 at 06:04
i don have much idea about parser so asked only for reference @Jens — Piyush Mittal, Aug 14 '15 at 06:18
@PiyushMittal So look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2168610/which-html-parser-is-the-best — Jens, Aug 14 '15 at 06:21

vks · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-14T06:10:01.577

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<head>\\s*([\\s\\S]*?)\\s*<\\/head>

You will have to replace by $1 here.See demo.

https://regex101.com/r/uF4oY4/20

edited Aug 14 '15 at 06:10

answered Aug 14 '15 at 06:04

vks

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Can you give me a java sample – someone Aug 14 '15 at 06:08

Rahul Ahirrao · Answer 2 · 2015-08-14T07:13:27.363

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Try This

String replStr  = "<head>\\s*([\\s\\S]*?)\\s*</head>";
String yourHtml = "<html> <head>   <meta http-equiv ............</head></html>";

yourHtml = yourHtml.replaceAll(replStr, "");

System.out.println("Ans :   "+yourHtml);

edited Aug 14 '15 at 07:13

answered Aug 14 '15 at 06:54

Rahul Ahirrao

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Replace start and end text with empty

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