Quick Regex Question - Match between

Question

Hi There,

I hope there is someone who can help me with this regex

content.match(/<div class="content">.+#-#/ig);

I need to match everything between the <div class="content"> [ Match everything inbetween ] up untill the #-# in the coding

I am using javascript

Thanks

Answer 1

Try this regular expression:

/<div class="content">[\s\S]+?#-#/ig

[\s\S] will match any character including line breaks and the non-greedy quantifier +? will expand the match to the minimum.

Answer 2

Well, strictly speaking:

content.match(/<div class="content">(.+?)##/ig);

Result is every even element in the array. But you really shouldn't be using regexp for this. If you want the content of the 'content' div you should use DOM methods. Along the lines of:

function getContents () {
  var divs = document.getElementsByTagName('DIV');
  var result = [];
  for (var i=0,l=divs.length;i<l;i++) {
    if (divs[i].className == 'content') {
        var content = divs[i].innerHTML;
        result.push(content.match(/(.*?)##/)[1]);
    }
  }
  return result;
}