Regular Expression Problem

Using any Search and Replace program what would I enter to remove the
following string from many files which are all in the same folder:-

<!-- 108p3.htm 08:05 GMT -->

The text is different in every instance, but the opening and closing comment
bits are the same.
TIA
Brian Tozer

KiwiBrian wrote:

Using any Search and Replace program what would I enter to remove the
following string from many files which are all in the same folder:-

!-- 108p3.htm 08:05 GMT --

The text is different in every instance, but the opening and closing comment
bits are the same.
TIA
Brian Tozer

If it supports regular expressions, you can select that by doing "<!--
[^-]+-->", or so I believe, at least. You may have to escape something
in there, though I wouldn't think so.

KiwiBrian wrote:

Using any Search and Replace program what would I enter to remove the
following string from many files which are all in the same folder:-

!-- 108p3.htm 08:05 GMT --

The text is different in every instance, but the opening and closing
comment bits are the same.
TIA
Brian Tozer

Then you can play with something vaguely like:

find2perl . -type f -name "*.html" -print |\
perl -pi.BAK -e "s/<!--.+-->//g;";

....but if you bring down the internet and the governments of several
third-world countries with it, along with your hard disk and your marriage,
don't come crying to me.
--
mbstevens http://www.mbstevens.com

mbstevens wrote:

Using any Search and Replace program what would I enter to remove the
following string from many files which are all in the same folder:-

!-- 108p3.htm 08:05 GMT --

Then you can play with something vaguely like:

find2perl . -type f -name "*.html" -print |\
perl -pi.BAK -e "s/<!--.+-->//g;";

Well, since they're all in the same folder, this simpler one might work
better:
perl -pi.bak -e "s/<\!--.+-->//g;" *.html

....but would likely fail if the commented text spans several lines.