I want to match this HTML tag using Regex and get the inner text for <ul> tag
<ul class="test">
<li>Data</li>
<li>Data</li>
<li>Data</li>
</ul>
given that <ul class="test"> is fixed ,, I want to match the inner data of this tag
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Mohamed Kamal
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you should not match tags with regexes, you should use a HTML parser for this. – Wouter J Apr 04 '13 at 08:30
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and what language are you using? – Wouter J Apr 04 '13 at 08:31
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And how do you want to consider nested tags? – Rohit Jain Apr 04 '13 at 08:34
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http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/632133 – Oleg Apr 04 '13 at 08:36
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@MohamedKamal Please reconsider using regular expressions to parse HTML. There are probably other, less painful, less error-prone, and more efficient methods to achieve what you want. – Oleg Apr 04 '13 at 08:47
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You should try this if you're sure you won't have ul tag inside your ul tag:
/<ul class="test">(.*?)<\/ul>/
If, however, you do have nested tags, well, it'd depends on what language you're using. Eg, in PHP:
/<ul.*?>((?:(?R)|.)*?)<\/ul>/
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