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Getting DIV content with Regular Expression

Answer 1

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I'd avoid using regexps for HTML, since HTML isn't regular. Instead check out this PHP DOM parser, which will allow you to extract/change the HTML much more reliably.

Brian Agnew 2009-11-09 11:31:23

Second, HTML is too irregular for regular expressions

Mike B 2009-11-09 11:36:26

+1 first Don't Process HTML With Regex post of the day. Many more to come, I'm sure.

bobince 2009-11-09 11:39:03

HTML is not always perfect but browsers render it anyway. This would make regex not feasible.

Collin Price 2009-11-09 11:47:56

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(?<=<div.*>).*?(?=</div>)

xoxo 2009-11-09 11:33:02

Will this work for nested div tags? <div class="lv1right dfbg"><div></div></div>

Mike B 2009-11-09 11:35:51

Don't think this will work for nested divs.

Trumpi 2009-11-09 11:38:47

To get the nested ones could you not apply a recursive method that applies this regex (edited to: (?<=<div.*>).*(?=</div>)) to the match string(being the match value from the previous match).

xoxo 2009-11-09 11:40:34

No making it greedy will not cause it to match nested divs. It merely causes to match everything between the first `div` and the last `</div>` to be matched (iff DOT-ALL is enabled: the DOT does not match line breaks by default).

Bart Kiers 2009-11-09 12:44:05

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