Hi All,
this is the regex expression I am using: (<div)\s+id="article_body">(.*?((\1((.*?(\5|\8).*?|.*?)|.*?)\9)|(\1[^>]*?/>))){1,}(</div>)
to extract whole complete <div id='article_body'> tag. Note that this tag can have other <div> tags as well as other tags. there can be other <div> tags before or after this tag. My expression is not accurate.
Following are the contents:
// Snip
Please help me to get right regex expression.
Thanks in advance.
regards,
kk.
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Please correct my English.
Hi all,
What I want is the whole <div id='article_body'> tag from the contents of the file attached. the regex expression I provided considers the nested nature of this tag - this tag can be nested within other <div> tags and other <div> tag can be nested into this.
My expression is giving me wrong results - it either extracts contents starting from article_body to first </div> tag or last </div> tag. both the cases are invalid. extracted contents should end up to the </div> tag meant for <div id='article_body'>.
I have numbered groups in the regex expression from left to right (don't know the right order).
cases may be-
1) there would not be any tags in article_body tag.
2) nested tags - like <div id='parent'><div id='article-body'><div>sss</div>ssdd<div><div />sfdfd</div></div></div>
for nested nature I have used backreferences to group.
other alternative solutions like best open source html parser are also welcome - suggest me a html parser.
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