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Re: Can RegExp() do this??

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> You can use String.prototype.replace() passing a reference to a RegExp 
> instance with alternation and global flag set while giving precedence to the 
> alternatives that match substrings that you wish to ignore, and a reference 
> to a Function instance for replacer function.  Then return from that 
> function the match for them, and the highlighted match for the rest.
               ^^^^^                               ^^^^^

> 
> That said, at your current position in the learning curve you should not 
> attempt to parse provably non-regular languages like HTML using regular
             ^^^^^

The OP doesn't seem to want parsing the HTML document here.


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Joao Rodrigues

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Can RegExp() do this?? dean@hannotte.com - 2015-02-08 05:57 -0800
  Re: Can RegExp() do this?? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-02-08 15:17 +0100
    Re: Can RegExp() do this?? Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-02-09 15:56 -0200
      Re: Can RegExp() do this?? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-02-10 17:04 +0100

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