How to capture any character using regular expressions

Question

I want to capture the text in an attribute in an XML tag. it

<tag1 name="tag^*&,+">

I want to capture the value in the name attribute (which will be in this case tag^*&,+). This is a regex

name=\"([a-z0-9]+)\"  

returns a value only if the text in the attribute is alphanumeric. Is there any syntax that will return the captured value no matter what character and characters? Thank!

Answer 1

Check out regular-expressions.info

This will do what you want:

([^"]+)

Answer 2

, "" XML . XML- . tag1 name.

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Answer 3

:

name=\"([^\"]+)\"

, " , "

Answer 4

It seems that you are better off using XML Parser . I don’t know which language you are using, but there is an XML parser for each language there.

Answer 5

. will match any character.

name = \"(.+)\"