Regular expression for removing spaces between tags

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I have a string which contains data in the following format:

<employee:First Name>xyz</employee:First Name> <employee:Last Name>abc</employee:Last Name>

I want to remove spaces between two tags and not in the data enclosed within a tag
i.e

<employee:First Name>xyz</employee:First Name><employee:Last Name>abc</employee:Last Name>

So the space between </employee:First Name> and <employee:Last Name> is removed.

I want to do this with a regular expression. Please help

What I have tried:

Regex.Replace(string,(.*)>\s<(.*),(.*)><(.*))

Posted 17-Jun-17 19:49pm

Kunal Wadhwa

Updated 17-Jun-17 22:17pm

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Ravi Bhavnani · Answer 1 · 2017-06-17T20:09:00

Solution 1

Try:

Regex.Replace(input, @">\s*<", "><", RegexOptions.Multiline)

/ravi

Posted 17-Jun-17 20:09pm

Ravi Bhavnani

Patrice T · Answer 2 · 2017-06-17T22:17:00

You should try something like:

C#

Regex.Replace(string,(.*)>\s<(.*),$1><$2)

But this code is not C# and the RegEx is over complicated.

Just a few interesting links to help building and debugging RegEx.
Here is a link to RegEx documentation:
perlre - perldoc.perl.org[^]
Here is links to tools to help build RegEx and debug them:
.NET Regex Tester - Regex Storm[^]
Expresso Regular Expression Tool[^]
This one show you the RegEx as a nice graph which is really helpful to understand what is doing a RegEx:
Debuggex: Online visual regex tester. JavaScript, Python, and PCRE.[^]