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I'm working in a kml (xml) file in VSCode. There are 267 instances of the <description></description> tags with the same contents schema but different contents. I would like a fast way to delete all of the instances of <description> including the contents instead of manually deleting each one. I'm not married to VSCode if Notepad++ or another editor will do what I'm trying to do.
Use one command/macro to delete both of these (plus 265 more)
<description><![CDATA[<center><table><tr><th colspan='2' align='center'>
<em>Attributes</em></th></tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3">
<th>NAME</th>
<td>Anderson</td>
</tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3">
</tr></table></center>]]>
</description>
<description><![CDATA[<center><table><tr><th colspan='2' align='center'>
<em>Attributes</em></th></tr><tr bgcolor="#E3E3F3">
<th>NAME</th>
<td>Billingsly</td>
</tr><tr bgcolor="#F00000">
</tr></table></center>]]>
</description>
Thank you, Paul
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Expand the Search widget to display the Replace text box. When you type text into the Replace text box, you will see a diff display of the pending changes. You can replace across all files from the Replace text box, replace all in one file or replace a single change.
You can access replacement options by choosing the button next to the Find text box. To make one replacement at a time, choose the Replace Next button next to the Replace text box. To replace all matches, choose the Replace All button.
You can use this regex in vscode find/replace:
\n?<description>[\S\s\n]*?<\/description>\n?
and replace with nothing. The \n?'s at the beginning and end are there if you want to delete the lines the tags occur on as well - see how it works, you can remove those if you don't care about empty lines where your deleted content used to be.
Obviously, if you have malformed input, like unmatched <description> or </description> tags the regex won't work.
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