RegEx Find/Replace in Dreamweaver - Paste HTML as variable? -

i have convert spreadsheet data (name, image name, & bio) html, use regex find/replace variables in dw easy enough. issue 1 column contains bio html (paragraphs , italics mainly) , regex ignores "row" reasons beyond researching capabilities.

i don't want strip manually add html again, show me way!

tl;dr: there way paste html regex variable?

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here's example table data paste/format excel dw:

<tr>   <td>james brian hellwig</td>   <td>james_brian_hellwig</td>   <td><p>lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, <em>consectetur adipisicing</em> elit. sunt, ut iste tempore laborum aperiam nostrum obcaecati neque natus adipisci fugit. </p>   <p>dolores, eligendi animi ea totam nobis cumque ullam eveniet accusamus!</p></td> </tr> <tr>   <td>jiminy cricket</td>   <td>jiminy_cricket</td>   <td><p>lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, <em>consectetur adipisicing</em> elit. sunt, ut iste tempore laborum aperiam nostrum obcaecati neque natus adipisci fugit. </p>   <p>dolores, eligendi animi ea totam nobis cumque ullam eveniet accusamus!</p></td> </tr> 

here's "find" regex:

<tr>   <td>([^<]*)</td>   <td>([^<]*)</td>   <td>([^<]*)</td> </tr> 

here's "replace" regex:

<div>   <img class="floatleft" src="$2.jpg" alt="$1" />   <h2 class="name">$1</h2>   $3 </div> 

i either mouth-kiss or buy beer first person answer this. choice.

your problem [^<]* matches except opening angle bracket. that's idea in general, don't accidentally match across tag boundaries, in case it's unfortunate because there's <p> tag right after <td>.

therefore, propose different solution. allow other tags, not <td> tags within <td> tag:

<tr>   <td>((?:(?!</?td)[\s\s])*)</td>   <td>((?:(?!</?td)[\s\s])*)</td>   <td>((?:(?!</?td)[\s\s])*)</td> </tr> 

explanation:

(?:         # start non-capturing group matches...  (?!</?td)  # (unless we're @ start of <td> or </td> tag)  [\s\s]     # ... character (whitespace or non-whitespace). )*          # repeat needed