I know this is not the place to ask this, but apparently it is the most famous place on internet for the words
do not try to parse html files using regular expressions
So, ive decided, not being a programmer, and not being this a programming question, that i could get a reply here for this, as im really tired of searching just too get weird explanations and snippets that either tell me i cannot get this or they are just too complicated for me.
my question
is there any free software or feature in a more or less well known software (like notepad++) that will let me do this
ill make it fun
-hello mr software
-hello average user with non programming skills
-ive written two custom tags made with html comment markup and put them along some html files in this folder
-ok, and what
-they look like this and there are always found in pairs one being the opening tag, the other being the closing one.
ok, now i can identify them but what do you want me to do
-i want you to look for the opening one in every single html file in this folder, and then read ALL content after it every single character including whitespaces, line breaks, or even html tags, inline css, script languages, every single character literally until you find the next closing custom tag.
ok, and what i should do with that multiline text
replace it with this piece of text ive written here
i know this is roflmao, but eventhough i can install as an user an os that will make millions of things, apparently i cannot find a simple piece of software that will do this for me, and it is really strange, i really think there must be something to do this with no programming skills in some gui app
the nearest thing ive found is software called alias find and replace but it is not free, and have no money to spend, and this is so simple put next to far more complicated things i can do with most softwares that i really think i could find that i can do it using some tool in a program i already have installed in pc or downloading some free software.
any help appreciated.