How to replace   to space?

Question

Content is

    Hello World.

<a&nbsp;href="#"&nbsp;target=_blank>hello&nbsp;World</a>

How to replace the   in html code and keep the other   in the text.

Answer 1

Can you try searching for

(?<=<[^>]*)&nbsp;

and replacing it with a single space?

This looks for   inside tags (preceded by a < and possibly other characters except >).

This is extremely brittle, though. For example, it will fail if you have </> symbols in strings/attributes. Better avoid getting those   into the wrong locations in the first place.

Answer 2

It's simple

youString.Replace(" ", " ");

String class http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.aspx

Replace method http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fk49wtc1.aspx

Answer 3

This will find you all those strips of the text containing &nbsp:

<[^>]+?&nbsp;[^<]+?>

Fropm here you can just do a simple string replaces with the space since Regex will give you the lcoation ofthe match in your text.