Regex to remove conditional comments
- by cnu
I want a regex which can match conditional comments in a HTML source page so I can remove only those. I want to preserve the regular comments.
I would also like to avoid using the .*? notation if possible.
The text is
foo
<!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css">
ul.menu ul li{
font-size: 10px;
font-weight:normal;
padding-top:0px;
}
</style>
<![endif]-->
bar
and I want to remove everything in <!--[if IE]> and <![endif]-->
EDIT: It is because of BeautifulSoup I want to remove these tags. BeautifulSoup fails to parse and gives an incomplete source
EDIT2: [if IE] isn't the only condition. There are lots more and I don't have any list of all possible combinations.
EDIT3: Vinko Vrsalovic's solution works, but the actual problem why beautifulsoup failed was because of a rogue comment within the conditional comment. Like
<!--[if lt IE 7.]>
<script defer type="text/javascript" src="pngfix_253168.js"></script><!--png fix for IE-->
<![endif]-->
Notice the <!--png fix for IE--> comment?
Though my problem was solve, I would love to get a regex solution for this.
