Finding line beginning using regular expression

Question

Finding Line Beginning using Regular expression in Notepad++

I want to strip a 4000-line HTML file from all the jQuery "done" attributes in a div.

Answer 1

I like Notepad++ too but the regexing is really a pain. If you insist on using Notepad++ try this:

• First find out which newline characters are being used in your document (View>Show Symbol>Show End Of Line)
• Delete those line-breaks by replacing them with a single space (Search and replace. CR is \r LF is \n. Be sure to tick "Extended" search mode)
• Regex-replace done[0-9][0-9]*=\"[0-9][0-9]*\" with the empty string (be sure to put a single space before the regex expression)

Voila! Not very nice n clean but it works ;o)

After that if you want it human-readable again you could use the HTMLTidy functions