<xyz> 1800 < 3944877 </xyz>

in this the less than sign is causing problem to read the xml file so I was thinking to use regex to find the less than sign and replace it.
I am using c#

Can any tell me the regex or is there any other way i can do it

I write this :
(<[^]*?>).*(<).*?(<[^]*?>)
but it holds good till each tag is separated with new line.

1800 < 3944877

in this the less than sign is causing problem to read the xml file so I was thinking to use regex to find the less than sign and replace it.
I am using c#

Can any tell me the regex or is there any other way i can do it

I write this :
(<[^]*?>).*(<).*?(<[^]*?>)
but it holds good till each tag is separated with new line.

I used it to work out a moderately complex expression to validate a US phone number with optional parenthesis around the area code. It worked great in all of my Expresso and C# tests. The problem I ran into is when I tried to use the same expression in a javascript function to validate a phone number in a form on a web page. The expression throws a javascript exception in the RegEx constructor. It’s apparently not valid in Javascript. I tried whittling it back down to basics in Javascript and I can’t even figure out how to get the basic named matched sub-expressions working in Javascript. I’m not going to list all the Javascript variants that I tried, but I’ll mention the .Net version that I was able to get working. I was wonderng if you (or anyone) might be up for the challenge of helping me figure out how to translate this to a Javascript equivalent regex or if anyone could direct me to a good regex forum where I can get some help on this.

Here are my test cases and the regex itself.

These values should (and do) match:
“(555) 555-5555″
“(555)-555-5555″
“(555)555-5555″
“555 555-5555″
“555-555-5555″
“”

These values should NOT (and don’t) match:
“(055) 555-5555″
“(155) 555-5555″
“(555) 055-5555″
“(555) 155-5555″
“(555 555-5555″
“555) 555-5555″
“555)555-5555″
“555555-5555″

Here’s the expression:
Note that neither area code (npa) nor the first 3 digit of the local number (nxx) is allowed to start with 0 or 1. That’s the reason for using “[2-9]\d\d” instead of “\d{3}” as in many phone number regex examples.

Note also that the RegEx needs the IgnorePatternWhitespace option as it’s shown here, but it could be reduced to a single line that doesn’t need that option if you’re willing to sacrifice readability.

“^1?
(?:
(?’open’\()?
(?’npa’(?:[2-9]\d\d)?)
(?’close-open’\))?
(?(open)(?!))
(?:
(?:\s)
|
(?:-)
|
(?<=\))
)
(?'nxx'(?:[2-9]\d\d))
-
(?'line'\d{4})
)?
$"

Thanks,
Dave