Regular expression to find literal and then arbitrary text in pattern of this

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Hello I am trying to identify a pattern like this in regular expression:
And replace with same - last 4 attributes.

<polypolygon name="PolyPolygon35" height="13" width="23" left="346" top="126" visible="true" wallpaper="false" isreferenceobject="false" backstyle="solid" backcolor="#3F3F3F" forecolor="black" linestyle="solid" linewidth="1" patternstyle="none" patterncolor="black" endcolor="white" gradientstop="50" gradientdirection="gradientDirectionHorizontal" gradientshadingstyle="gradientHorizontalFromRight">

All values in quotes are not important only this

<polypolygon as a literal matters along with the ending >

I really need an exact match on this pattern with its attributes (not the attribute values in quotes - they are unimportant) , so I can replace all the last 4 attributes with nothing.

If any one can get me started in the right direction I can work it out - I tried

<polypolygon

with a numeric count - but that tends to get problems not identifying correctly so my reg-ex is probably bad.
Thank you all for your time and help.

Posted 26-Jun-14 6:21am

stixoffire

Updated 26-Jun-14 6:27am

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PIEBALDconsult 26-Jun-14 12:51pm

http://blog.codinghorror.com/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way/

OriginalGriff 26-Jun-14 14:02pm

That should have been the answer, really...:laugh:

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-26T08:02:00

PIEBALDConsult is right: a regex is a very, very poor way to parse HTML / XML - it really is a recipe for problems, bugs, and frustration - particularly when you need a minor change in three months time, and you have forgotten how that unreadable Regex works...

Have a look at the HTML Agility Pack[^] - it'll probably do most of what you want a lot simpler and quicker.