[thelist] Regexs and headaches

Dan Parry dan at virtuawebtech.co.uk
Thu Feb 9 07:03:09 CST 2006


Thanks!

That appears to be the answer

Still some to learn with the old regexs I think

Cheers

Dan

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Subject: Re: [thelist] Regexs and headaches

Dan

> 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

[..]

> Here is the regex:
> 
> /\<[^\/]([^<>]*)[^\/]>/g

What about the following?

/\<[^\>\/]+?\>/g

I haven't had time to test it I'm afraid, so it may be fatally flawed.

Chris Marsh
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