How to capture and replace items in tokens with html

Question

I want to parse text like this

<! this is inside a token > text outside the token <! more inside > more outside

and I want to capture all the tokens and replace them with <span>...</span> tags.

For instance

<! this is inside a token >

should get replaced with

<span> this is inside a token </span>

I tried regex /<!(.+)>/ but it just captures the whole string.

See also the answer to this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags — Richard Close, Oct 05 '12 at 21:09

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 05 '12 at 21:07

1

This will work

/<!([^>]+)>/

answered Oct 05 '12 at 21:07

epascarello

Ωmega · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-05T21:14:21.990

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Replace <!([^>]*)> with <span>$1</span>

edited Oct 05 '12 at 21:14

answered Oct 05 '12 at 21:08

Ωmega

2 Answers2