Removal of everything between two characters in Ms Word

Question

I need a pattern to remove everything between the "<" and ">" characters. An example would be:

<blah blah blah>Something I want <blah blah>really bad<blah blah>

becomes

Something I want really bad

How would I go about doing this? I have looked up the word search patterns and tried using them (to no avail). If Word won't do it, is there an online tool that could?

Obligatory reference to the famous bobince answer over at StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454 — R-D, Feb 08 '15 at 22:05

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 10 '15 at 09:16

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I need a search pattern to remove everything between the "<" and ">" characters.

Set "Find What" to \<(*{1,})\>
Set "Replace with" to an empty string.
Check "Use wildcard"

Notes:

< and > are special characters that need to be escaped using \
* means any character
{1,} means one or more times

Your code works for < and > but it doesn't seem to work with [ and ] When I use wildcard with this : \[(*{1,})\] word can't find anything but if I only look for [ or ] without wild card, all the [ and ] are found. Any idea why? ( I tried with and without the \ to escape the [ and ] ). Thanks for your help! – MagTun Dec 10 '15 at 06:47
This is a different question to the OP. Please ask your own question and include examples of the text before and after you required changes. – DavidPostill Dec 10 '15 at 08:26
Sorry for this, here is my question: http://superuser.com/questions/1011506/remove-of-everything-between-and-in-word-regex – MagTun Dec 10 '15 at 08:50

Removal of everything between two characters in Ms Word

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I need a search pattern to remove everything between the "<" and ">" characters.

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