[thelist] Regexs and headaches

[Dan Parry]

Hi all

 

I have a regex problem that is giving me major hassles. the preamble is that
the expression looks for opening HTML tags in a textarea value

 

I've successfully got it to locate all opening tags and ignore self-closers
(eg <br/>). it even picks up tags with attributes

 

But (and this is a big but) it can't find single letter tags (eg <b>). it
can find single letter tags with attributes though (eg <a
href="http://example.org <http://example.org/> ">)

 

Here is the regex:

 

/\<[^\/]([^<>]*)[^\/]>/g

 

Anyone have any ideas?  The app it's working in is at
http://chrome.me.uk/temp.php

 

I usually work on things until I figure them out rather than ask, but this
one has me beat

 

TIA :-)

 

Dan

 

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Dan Parry

Senior Developer

Virtua Webtech Ltd

http://www.virtuawebtech.co.uk