Stupid Regex Question

[Jonas Galvez]

I'm feeling dumb:

str = "<tag>text<inne rtag>moretext</innertag></tag><tag>text</tag>"

How can I get a list like ["text<innertag> moretext</innertag>",
"text"] using regexes? I'm starting to believe it's not possible.

Yeah, I know about the terror stories about using regexes to parse
HTML, but in this particular case, using a SAX parser would be an
horrendous overhead (I mean, it's a ridiculously simple string).



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Jonas Galvez
jonasgalvez.com/blog
macromedia.com/go/team

[Noah from IT Goes Click]

Re: Stupid Regex Question

small loop problem?

Jonas Galvez wrote:
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> I'm feeling dumb:
>
> str = "<tag>text<inne rtag>moretext</innertag></tag><tag>text</tag>"
>
> How can I get a list like ["text<innertag> moretext</innertag>",
> "text"] using regexes? I'm starting to believe it's not possible.
>
> Yeah, I know about the terror stories about using regexes to parse
> HTML, but in this particular case, using a SAX parser would be an
> horrendous overhead (I mean, it's a ridiculously simple string).
>
>
>
> =-
> Jonas Galvez
> jonasgalvez.com/blog
> macromedia.com/go/team
>
>
>
>
>[/color]

[ZeN0]

Re: Stupid Regex Question

Jonas Galvez:
[color=blue]
> str = "<tag>text<inne rtag>moretext</innertag></tag><tag>text</tag>"
> How can I get a list like ["text<innertag> moretext</innertag>", "text"]
> using regexes? I'm starting to believe it's not possible.[/color]

You can try with:

re.findall("<ta g>(.*?)</tag>",str)

(if you don't have nested tag like in this case)
..*? means anychar (.) many times or never (*) but least as possible (?)

Greetings,
Zenzero