RegEx to remove carriage returns between tags

Question

I\'ve stumped myself trying to figure out how to remove carriage returns that occur between

tags. (Technically I need to replace them with spaces, not

Answer 1

A single-regex solution is basically impossible here. If you absolutely insist on not using an HTML parser, and you can count on your input being well-formed and predictable then you can write a simple lexer that will do the job (and I can provide sample code) -- but it's still not a very good idea :)

For reference:

• Why shouldn't I parse XML or XHTML with a regex?
• How can I parse HTML in my language of choice?