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Something like this should do it, as long as the &quot;href&quot; is always the first thing after the &quot;&lt;a&quot;: <br />
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<pre><code id="code-20-35018087-1">s/\&lt;a href\=[^\&gt;]*\&gt;//ig</code></pre>
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Something like this should do it, as long as the "href" is always the first thing after the "<a":



s/\<a href\=[^\>]*\>//ig

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I don't have textpad to test what will work with that, but in <a href="http://gskinner.com/RegExr/" rel="ugc">regexr</a> this seems to work:<br />
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<pre><code id="code-20-35018170-1">(?=&lt;a[^&gt;]+href)&lt;a[^&lt;&gt;]*?&gt;(.*?)&lt;/a&gt;</code></pre>
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I don't have textpad to test what will work with that, but in regexr [http://gskinner.com/RegExr/] this seems to work:



(?=<a[^>]+href)<a[^<>]*?>(.*?)</a>

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P.S.<br />
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I run TP with POSIX regular expression syntax enabled. If the above doesn't work for you, you can enable this option by going to Configure--Preferences--Ed<wbr />itor--Use POSIX regular expression syntax.<br />
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P.S.

I run TP with POSIX regular expression syntax enabled. If the above doesn't work for you, you can enable this option by going to Configure--Preferences--Editor--Use POSIX regular expression syntax.
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My attempt wasn't too good.<br />
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kaufmed: &nbsp;does your's strip the &lt;/a&gt; tags? &nbsp;(mine didn't)
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My attempt wasn't too good.

kaufmed:  does your's strip the </a> tags?  (mine didn't)

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Excellent, many thanks<br />
Neil
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Hi<br />
<br />
I have 150 pages that I need to remove all the links from (APART FROM ANCHOR TAGS &lt;a name...) so I intend to open them in textpad and clear via some kind of regex<br />
<br />
I want to keep the text that was in the links though so for example<br />
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&lt;a href=&quot;test/test.htm&quot;&gt;this is a test&lt;/a&gt; would become simply this is a test<br />
&lt;a name=&quot;test&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; would remain intact.<br />
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Points for full working regex please<br />
Regards<br />
Neil
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Hi

I have 150 pages that I need to remove all the links from (APART FROM ANCHOR TAGS <a name...) so I intend to open them in textpad and clear via some kind of regex

I want to keep the text that was in the links though so for example

<a href="test/test.htm">this is a test</a> would become simply this is a test
<a name="test"></a> would remain intact.

Points for full working regex please
Regards
Neil

after some regex that I can run in textpad or similar to remove all &lt;a href tage from text

A regular expression ("regex") is a sequence of characters that define a search pattern, mainly for use in pattern matching with strings, or string matching, i.e. "find and replace"-like operations. Regular expression processors are found in several search engines, search and replace dialogs of several word processors and text editors, and in the command lines of text processing utilities, such as sed and AWK. Many programming languages provide regular expression capabilities, some built-in, for example Perl, JavaScript, Ruby, AWK, and Tcl, and others via a standard library, for example .NET languages, Java, Python and C++ (since C++11). Most other languages offer regular expressions via a library.

after some regex that I can run in textpad or similar to remove all &lt;a href tage from text

after some regex that I can run in textpad or similar to remove all <a href tage from text