Regex expresion that should select matching text but escape everything between ><

I have a lot of files where i have something similar

<span translate>textTo.translate</span>

What need to look like is

<span>{{ $t("textTo.translate") }}</span>

What i do now is find all occurrences of span translate> and replace all with span>{{ $t(" and then go thru file and finish step by step

Is there any regex that i could use in replace all to achieve this?

What i managed to do is to select all (span translate>)[^<>]+(?=<) but i cannot find replacement regex

>Solution :

You can use

Find: <span\s+translate>([^<>]+)<
Replace: <span>{{ $t("$1") }}<

See the regex demo.

Details:

• <span\s+translate> – a <span string, one or more whitespaces and then a translate> string
• ([^<>]+) – Group 1 ($1 refers to this group value): one or more chars other than < and >
• < – a < char

The replacement is <span>{{ $t(" + Group 1 value + ") }}< text.

See the demo: