How to get rid of "junk styles"?

[keuler]

Hi. After importing a project from RoboHelp, I'm finding via Analyser that I've brought in a lot of classes, esp span classes, like this:

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<span class="SomeDumbClass">Customers</span>

Is there an easy way to get rid of the entire span? I can replace '" class="SomeDumbClass' with nothing, but that still leaves the <span>...</span> text.

I should think some fancy regex could fix this, but is there an easy way from within Flare?

Thanks!

[kwag_myers]

I tested Flare 10 to see if the Find & Replace feature supported wild cards, and apparently it does not. My recommendation is to download Search & Replace Master, then replace <span class="*"> with <span>.

[Nita Beck]

For this kind of code cleanup (and there's always a lot after a RoboHelp import), I use FAR HTML to create regular expressions that will remove the opening and closing span tags and leave the content. An advantage of FAR is that one can save find-and-replace routines to reuse as-is or reuse adapted for future cleanup.

WORD OF CAUTION: Whenever wanting to do code cleanup of this nature, BACK UP your project first, and also make interim backups as you proceed with the cleanup. It is VERY easy to hose the code of a project.

[keuler]

Good tips! Thanks all!