Regexp - search for text that does not contain a whole word

Question

I have text similar to this:

<html>this is the text and this is another text</html>

and i need to get this text using regexp

this is the text

The problem is that when I use a simple regular expression like this ( <html>.*), I get all the text until the last occurrence

Can anybody help me?

thanks lennyd

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lennyd Feb 06 '10 at 19:29

4 answers

, .. . , "" . *?

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Dominik 06 . '10 19:34

, regexp /(.*)(?=<\/p>)/, , .*? , . , HTML , :

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dma_k 06 . '10 20:41

, - , - ? , - [^<]

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Luxvero 07 . '10 1:18

Mark byers · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-06T19:31:38+0000

You need an unwanted match:

<html>.*?</p>

Alternatively, you might consider using an HTML parser instead of regular expressions for this task.