Re: Regular Expressions

From: Justin Rogers (Justin_at_games4dotnet.com)
Date: 04/20/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 20:09:36 -0700

You really should use balancing groups here. Check out www.regexlib.com and
you'll find some helpful expressions for working with HTML. 

-- 
Justin Rogers
DigiTec Web Consultants, LLC.
Blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/justin_rogers
"Matt Berther" <mberther@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23Wag6onJEHA.228@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hello Collin,
>
> > I'm new to regular expressions and I'm having some trouble with the
> > following.  I'm trying to match the start and end tags of a particular
> > HTML tag set and all the text inbetween.
>
> <\w+>(.*)</\w+>
>
> This will store the contents of everything in between the tags in a group.
Keep in mind that this expression doesnt account for attributes that may be on
the tag.
>
> --
> Matt Berther
> http://www.mattberther.com

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