How to shorten a regular expression?

Question

ruby

html_content = "<div style=\"padding: 0;\">
  <blockquote><span edit=\"false\">test</span></blockquote>
</div>"

html_content.gsub!("<span edit=\"false\">", '')
html_content.gsub!(/<\/span><\/blockquote>/i, "</blockquote>")
html_content.gsub!(/blockquote>/i, "blockquote>")

# Result
# <div style="padding: 0;">
#   <blockquote>test</blockquote>
# </div>

Link to Repl

The bottom line is to remove spaninside and move blockquoteall the text inside to the parent. spanblockquote

Answer 1

html_content.gsub!(/<span edit="false">([^<]+)<\/span>/, '\1')