Javascript string extraction/reg exp help

Question

I have a string in this format:

<!--Start 498-->
some stuff here
<!--End 498-->

<!--Start 498-->    
some more stuff here
<!--End 499-->

and so on.

How can I split this string to remove the content between a certain block of <!--Start xx-> and <!--End xx-->?

For example, if I wanted to remove the text between <!--Start 500--> and <!-- End 500-->, how would I remove it?

Edit: What regexp can I use to replace these? I'm hopeless with Regexps :(

Answer 1

I'd use String.replace with a regular expression to match the blocks and replace with an empty string

Something like

<!--Start \d+-->.*?<!--End \d+-->

would do the trick

Answer 2

http://www.webreference.com/js/column5/rules.html would help.