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regex and html parsing!


ShaolinF

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Hi Guys

 

I am trying to get some content between some div tags but cannot do so thus far. Code and regex below:

 

<blockquote class="postcontent restore ">

content here

</blockquote>

 

Regex:

/<blockquote class=\"postcontent restore \">(.*?)<\/blockquote>/

 

Returns nothing.. Any ideas on where I am going wrong ?

 

 

 

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Are you sure you're trying it with the exact example you provided us? Because it works for me.

 

Note that you have a space on this line:

 

<blockquote class="postcontent restore ">

Within the class. You probably want to remove that from both the HTML and the pattern.

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Yeah, cags is right. I was confusing PCRE regular expressions with Ruby regular expressions where the m modifier makes newlines be treated as regular characters (and thus be matched by the period).

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