capture text, including tags from string, and then reorder tags with text
- by Brian
I have the following text:
abcdef<CONVERSION>abcabcabcabc<2007-01-12><name1><2007-01-12>abcabcabcabc<name2><2007-01-11>abcabcabcabc<name3><2007-02-12>abcabcabcabc<name4>abcabcabcabc<2007-03-12><name5><date>abcabcabcabc<name6>
I need to use regular expressions in order to clean the above text:
The basic extraction rule is:
<2007-01-12>abcabcabcabc<name2>
I have no problem extracting this pattern. My issue is that within th text I have malformed sequences: If the text doesn't start with a date, and end with a name my extraction fails. For example, the text above may have several mal formed sequences, such as:
abcabcabcabc<2007-01-12><name1>
Should be:
<2007-01-12>abcabcabcabc<name1>
Is it possible to have a regular expression that would clean the above, prior to extracting my consistent pattern. In short, i need to find all mal formed patterns, and then take the date tag and put it in front of it, as provided in the example above.
Thanks.