regex help

[Sunny]

Hi,
I know that this is not the very right group, but I can not find better,
and I have seen a lot of regex experts to answer, so I'll give a shot:

Lets have this string:
"<table name='xxx'><br> \nMY_TEXT\n<\ta ble><p>"

please note the new line characters.

So, using a regex like:
"</?table.*>"

will find these:

"<table name='xxx'><br> " and
"<\table><p >"

How should like a regex to get only the table tags? I want to leave <br>
and <p> unmatched? How to stop the match to the first occurrence of ">",
not the last one?

I.e. if I replace the match with an empty string, I want to receive:
"<br>\nMY_TEXT\ n<p>",

but not what I have now:
"\nMY_TEXT\ n"


Cheers
Sunny

[Sunny]

Re: regex help

I found it:

"</?table.*?>"

The second ? makes lazy *, i.e. as few repeats as possible.

Thanks for reading, and hope this can help someone.

SUnny


In article <umHd2MYoEHA.38 96@TK2MSFTNGP15 .phx.gbl>,
sunny@newsgroup s.nospam says...[color=blue]
> Hi,
> I know that this is not the very right group, but I can not find better,
> and I have seen a lot of regex experts to answer, so I'll give a shot:
>
> Lets have this string:
> "<table name='xxx'><br> \nMY_TEXT\n<\ta ble><p>"
>
> please note the new line characters.
>
> So, using a regex like:
> "</?table.*>"
>
> will find these:
>
> "<table name='xxx'><br> " and
> "<\table><p >"
>
> How should like a regex to get only the table tags? I want to leave <br>
> and <p> unmatched? How to stop the match to the first occurrence of ">",
> not the last one?
>
> I.e. if I replace the match with an empty string, I want to receive:
> "<br>\nMY_TEXT\ n<p>",
>
> but not what I have now:
> "\nMY_TEXT\ n"
>
>
> Cheers
> Sunny
>[/color]