seek help with regular expressions

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Mad Scientist Jr

hi

i am trying to do a replace in HTML of all instances of
<LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="3"
COLOR="#000000"></FONT></LI>

for all font faces, all sizes, and all colors

with

<P>&nbsp;</P>

for instance, my document of

abc
<LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="3"
COLOR="#000000"></FONT></LI>
123

would look like

abc
<P>&nbsp;</P>
123

when replaced

i think regular expressions is the way to go,
but i am getting caught up in the syntax

some formulas have tried to use:

<LI><FONT FACE="*" SIZE="*" COLOR="*"></FONT></LI>

\<LI\>\<FONT FACE="*" SIZE="*" COLOR="*"\>\</FONT\>\</LI\>

\<LI\>\<FONT*FACE="*"*SIZE="*"*COLOR="*"\>\<\/FONT\>\<\/LI\>

any help appreciated!
reg expressions seem a really important thing to know
and if i can just get the basics down then i think i'll be ok

thanks in advance





PS my code seems to work, the form starts with
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions


and Button1 takes the values of 3 textboxes (for the source text,
expression, and replacement text) and puts the replace results in the
output box:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e
As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim sReplaceTemplate As String
Dim RegEx1 As Regex
RegEx1 = New Regex(txtEx.Text)
txtOut.Text = (RegEx1.Replace(txtSource.Text,
txtReplaceWith.Text))
End Sub
 
Hi

Mad, did you know that if you use mshtml you can use the Document Object
Model?

However that mshtml is no nice stuff to use.

But I thougth let me make you attent on it.

Cor
 
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