On Jan 26, Mark Maunder said:
>I'm matching html using regex and use something like this to grab a
>chunk of text up to the next html tag:
>
><font>([^<]+)</font>
>
>But I'd like to say "match everything that does not include the string
><br>" rather than "match everything that does not include a "<"
>character. Anyone got any suggestions?
First, I don't suggest using regexes to parse HTML.
What you want, though, is:
m{
<font>
( (?: [^<]+ | < (?!/font>) )* )
</font>
}
The middle part of that regex says "match either 'one or more non-<' or 'a
< that is not followed by /font' zero or more times".
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