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Regular Expression
ECMAScript (JavaScript)

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((?:\<[^<>]+\>\s?)?)([:]\w+(?!\w*[;]))((?:\s?\<\/[^<>]+\>)?)((?:(?:.(?!\1\2\3))*.){2})\1\2\3
/

Description

This regex replace the second tag content which has the prefix ":". If you want to replace the third, just increase the statement {1} to {2}, and so go on.

Submitted by Caio Oliveira - 11 years ago