Regex that detects greater than ">" and less than "<" in a string

Question

I need a regular expression that replaces the greater than and less than symbol on a string

i already tried

var regEx = "s/</</g;s/>/>/g"
var testString = "<test>"
alert(testString.replace(regEx,"*"))

My first time to use it please go easy on me :) Thanks

you will find http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17495418/regular-expression-greater-than-and-less-than, and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21063742/greater-than-and-less-than-symbol-in-regular-expressions, only a few examples. I am sure one of them will answer your question. — chiccodoro, Oct 01 '14 at 12:55

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 01 '14 at 13:01

3

You can use regEx | like

var regEx = /<|>/g;
var testString = "<test>"
alert(testString.replace(regEx,"*"))

answered Oct 01 '14 at 13:01

Y.Puzyrenko

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 01 '14 at 13:17

0

For greater than and less than symbol.

var string = '<><>'; string = string.replace(/[\<\>]/g,'*'); alert(string);

For special characters

var string = '<><>'; string = string.replace(/[&\/\\#,+()$~%.'":*?<>{}]/g,'_'); alert(string);

answered Oct 01 '14 at 13:17

Aravind G

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 01 '14 at 12:58

Insert the regular expression in the code before class

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

below is the code for string replace using regex

string input = "Dot > Not Perls";
// Use Regex.Replace to replace the pattern in the input.
string output = Regex.Replace(input, "some string", ">");

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