FIND/REPLACE with REGEX

[+sveinajoha+]

Im trying to strip the text lenght of text between two html tags.
I restrict to the text between the wanted tag, and have tried different FIND/REPLACE regex expression in a subfilter.

Example: <a>this is a sample text between an html tag pair </a>
Wanted output: <a>this is a sample... </a>
(only 16 characters and adding "...")

Do anyone have any sugesstions how to use regex with FIND/REPLACE to count the lenght and strip of unwanted characters?

[DataMystic Support]

Easy:

Find

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<a>([^<>]{1,16}?)([^<>]*)</a>

Replace with

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<a>$1...</a>

[+sveinajoha+]

Thank You so much

I obviously have missed something important when reading the docs...
But still a bit confused about "$1", is this a variable I have to declare or is this an TextPipe "internal container" always containg the last search match?

Regards

[DataMystic Support]

The latter is correct - $1 is a placholder that contains the first bracketed (...) part of a match. $2 holds the 17 characters and onwards.