Hi,

I need to remove text between two unique points in a string to leave just text outside of these tags. I've made a regular expression to find and replace the text with nothing, but it doesn't seem to be working... Any ideas?

String: "Furthermore , expression of <GENE> Vpu </GENE> in Jurkat T cells rendered them more susceptible to <GENE> Fas </GENE> - induced death "

$sentence =~ s/\[<GENE>\]\s*(((?!\[<GENE>\]|\[<\/GENE>\]).)+)\s*\[<\/GENE>\]//gi;

I want it to leave, "Furthermore , expression of in Jurkat T cells rendered them more susceptible to - induced death", but it doesn't!

Cheers

In reply to Remove text between two Start and End Tags (Regex) by danj35

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