find all occurrences between tag

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I am trying to find all <br> instances in the following string, but only in the "categories" class:

<td>bla<br>bla</td><td class="categories">cat1<br>cat2<br>cat3</td>

I am realy new to regex, and this is what I tried so far, but it only finds the first <br> after cat1 and takes the whole part in front of it in the result as well...

(?>categories">).*?<br>

EDIT: I want to find all <br> occurences to replace them with a comma. For the moment I'm using a text editor (Sublime Text) to achieve this...

Are you trying to do this within the browser, or server-side? When you find the `
` instances, what do you want to do with them? Count them, insert text after them...? — Richard Ev, Jul 18 '13 at 13:14

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 18 '13 at 11:06

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Why would you want to use regex? What are you trying to validate?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression

If you want to find html elements using class variables then you want to look into javascript or jquery

http://api.jquery.com/class-selector/

Hope that helps a bit

answered Jul 18 '13 at 11:06

Chris

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags – Zach Leighton Jul 18 '13 at 15:57

find all occurrences between tag

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