Re: Matching set of paragraph tags with string inside.

In the second example you're trying to match  directly, with an additional assertion. Try /(?=.*?\[tab\]).*?<\/p>/ instead. But that doesn't check if the [tab] occurs before the , so don'T try to mess with lookarounds but use your first pattern.

Update: OK, that doesn't fix your real problem. I'll have to think a bit more about it. In this simple case you can just use [^<>] instead of a dot everywhere between  and .

The old truth that HTML shouldn't be parsed with regexes still holds.

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Re^2: Matching set of paragraph tags with string inside. by the_0ne (Pilgrim) on Feb 08, 2008 at 21:02 UTC
My problem with the first match is it matches too much... `original: "<p>no tabs here</p><p>column 1[tab]column 2</p><p>no tabs here</p>" result of first regex: no tabs here</p><p>column 1[tab]column 2` [download] What I want it to match is... `column 1[tab]column 2` [download] Since that is the set of para's with the string [tab].	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Matching set of paragraph tags with string inside. by moritz (Cardinal) on Feb 08, 2008 at 21:20 UTC
My first shot was too fast, here's a working solution: `my $contents = "<p>no tabs here</p><p>column 1[tab]column 2</p><p>no t +abs here</p>"; if ($contents =~ m{(<p>[^<>]\[tab\][^<>]</p>)} ){ print "Matched '$1'\n;"; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Matching set of paragraph tags with string inside. by the_0ne (Pilgrim) on Feb 08, 2008 at 21:05 UTC
I understand your concern of parsing html with regexes, but this string will never be a full set of html. It will have some html (of course with the para's) but using a parser would be overkill for this situation.	[reply]


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