Regular expression OMIT string inside string

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I have this line to Regular Express it:
<title>жадно девочка and 10 green elfs - Google.com - 05 </title>

I want a single Regular Expression that will find (from a very large string):
<title> and </title>
its name that is in this case: "жадно девочка and 10 green elfs"
OMIT " - Google.com - "
and include the end of the string: "05 " or together: "05 </title>"
-In the end it should look like this:
<title>жадно девочка and 10 green elfs - 05 </title>
Clear as mud? Thank you !

What I have tried:

I didn't try anything yet.
I know how to build it myself to a point, but I have great trouble (for years) with that omitting expression !

Posted 21-Jul-21 0:46am

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Updated 21-Jul-21 1:02am

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Patrice T 21-Jul-21 7:03am

Show samples of what you want to match and what you don't want.
Example:

Input: <title> Sample </title>
match 1: '<title> Sa' aka '<title>' and 3 letters
match 2: 'le </title>' aka 3 letters and '</title>'
Exclude: 'mp'

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2021-07-21T01:02:00

Indeed - clear as mud. I'm really not sure what exactly you want, but I'm assuming you want
to turn this:

<title>жадно девочка and 10 green elfs - Google.com - 05 </title>

Into this:

<title>жадно девочка and 10 green elfs 05 </title>

In which case, try this:

(?<=\<title\>.+?)\s*-.+?-\s*(?=.*?\</title>)

And use a Replace operation:

C#

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

/// <summary>
///  Regular expression built for C# on: Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 12:00:03 PM
///  Using Expresso Version: 3.0.4750, http://www.ultrapico.com
///  
///  A description of the regular expression:
///  
///  Match a prefix but exclude it from the capture. [\<title\>.+?]
///      \<title\>.+?
///          Literal <
///          title
///          Literal >
///          Any character, one or more repetitions, as few as possible
///  \s*-.+?-\s*
///      Whitespace, any number of repetitions
///      -
///      Any character, one or more repetitions, as few as possible
///      -
///      Whitespace, any number of repetitions
///  Match a suffix but exclude it from the capture. [.*?\</title>]
///      .*?\</title>
///          Any character, any number of repetitions, as few as possible
///          Literal <
///          /title>
///  
///
/// </summary>
public static Regex regex = new Regex(
      "(?<=\\<title\\>.+?)\\s*-.+?-\\s*(?=.*?\\</title>)",
    RegexOptions.CultureInvariant
    | RegexOptions.Compiled
    );
// This is the replacement string
public static string regexReplace = 
      " ";
string result = regex.Replace(InputText,regexReplace);

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