How to select a specific part of text in HTML and convert it to uppercase using regexp?

Asked Aug 26 '18 at 11:13

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I'm trying to figure out how to select a specific part of text in HTML and convert it to uppercase using regexp in Sublime Text. An example of HTML that I have:

<p><b>Lorem ipsum / Dolor Sit Amet -- consectetur -- adipiscing</b><br> [...]

<p><b>elit -- "sed" -- do -- eiusmod</b><br>  [...]

<p><b>Tempor, Incididunt & ut labore -- "et" -- dolore -- magna</b><br>  [...]

I need to select everything between the tags <p><b> and the first appearance of -- and convert it to uppercase, like this:

<p><b>LOREM IPSUM / DOLOR SIT AMET -- consectetur -- adipiscing</b><br> [...]

<p><b>ELIT -- "sed" -- do -- eiusmod</b><br>  [...]

<p><b>TEMPOR, INCIDIDUNT & UT LABORE -- "et" -- dolore -- magna</b><br>  [...]

Could you please help me to solve this? I'm new to regexp and still don't really understand it's complexity... Thanks!

edited Aug 26 '18 at 11:33

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asked Aug 26 '18 at 11:13

kryptogen

Obligatory link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags – TL;DR: do not try to parse HTML with regular expressions ;) – knittl Aug 26 '18 at 11:17
Ok, got it, thanks :) – kryptogen Aug 26 '18 at 11:37
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Try `
\K[^<>]*?--` and replace with `\U$0`
– Wiktor Stribiżew Aug 26 '18 at 11:49
It worked perfectly, thank you! So after all, one can use regular expressions to parse some HTML. – kryptogen Aug 26 '18 at 13:28

How to select a specific part of text in HTML and convert it to uppercase using regexp?

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