How to acces wikipedia article text without refrences

#1

For my technical documentation page, I would like to use the text from this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS

So far I’ve just been copying and pasting the article into my html and manually deleting the references ([1], [2], [3], etc.) but it’s been very time consuming and I haven’t made much progress. Is there a way to access the article text without the references?

#2

Seems pretty trivial to just paste it into your editor then zap them with search-and-replace.

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#3

Each reference has a different number inside it so I’d need to search and replace each number.

#4

That’s what regex search and replace is for. And if you’re not familiar with regexes, then you’re in the right place to learn them :slight_smile: