Regex for scraping content from html

K C

Hi all,

I need a regex to match the the text between tags that are also nested between

tags - for example:

this text

I started using this: (?<=

)[\s\S]*?(?=

) which does match the text between the header tag, I also started playing around with [\s\S]*? to retrieve links which also works, but I am having problems when trying to combine the 2 together in one pattern.

I might be going about this the wrong way altogether! I am new to regex and am still trying to learn, any help with this will be greatly appreciated!!

Krishna

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Kirtan Patel17y ago
Accepted answer
Hi Krishna

Here is What you want

The ReGeX You want is below

(?<=
)[\s\S]*?(?=
)

please dont forget to mark "Do you like this anwer" it is very important to me :-)
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K C17y ago
Thanks Kirtan, its worked out nicely!

I ended up with this:
(?<=
[^>]*]*>)[\s\S]*?(?=[^>]*
)

as I had a lot of characters in the href="" that I was not prepared for!

Thanks very much!!
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Kirtan Patel17y ago
@ Roie ,

You Cheated ,

Why you copy pasted my regex to your post ???

at least if you cant answer dont copy paste others answer

I will complain about this to Mr mahesh

:X
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Roei Bar17y ago
you can read this:

http://kevin.deldycke.com/2007/03/ultimate-regular-expression-for-html-tag-parsing-with-php/

i think this is what you need :

(?<=
)[\S\s]*?(?=
)
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Regex for scraping content from html

tags - for example:

)[\s\S]*?(?=

[^>]*]*>)[\s\S]*?(?=[^>]*

[^>]]>)[\s\S]?(?=[^>]