How can I get the trailing value in a group

Question

I have a text and I want to use a regex pattern to put the text into groups.

Here is an example of text I could have:

Some text...

<style id=1>Header</style>

Some other text...

<style id=2>
- Bullet 1
- Bullet 2
</style>

Trailing text...

Requirements:

I may have, or not, text before or after the tag
I want a pattern that returns multiple matches. Ex: In that case, I could have 2 or 3 matches depending on the regex pattern groups.
I may have line breaks

I'm currently using this pattern:

(?<prefix>[\s\S]*?)<style id=(?<id>[0-9]+)>(?<content>[\s\S]*?)</style>

Currently, I have 2 matches using this pattern, which are:

[prefix]: Some text...
[id]: 1
[content]: Header

[prefix]: Some other text...
[id]: 2
[content]:
- Bullet 1
- Bullet 2

I'm not able to create a group that will catch the "Trailing text...". I tried but when I add a group at the end of my pattern, it returns only one match and its prefix include the first tag.

Any idea??

Thanks

By the way, here is a great tool to work with Regex: http://regexhero.net/tester/ — MaxD, Apr 22 '14 at 15:32
Your regex ends at ``how can you expect to catch the `Trailing text...` ? — Pedro Lobito, Apr 22 '14 at 15:33
I know that with this Regex I won't be able to catch it. The point of my question is, how can I do to catch it ;-) — MaxD, Apr 22 '14 at 16:01
The end of the string. The trailing text could be multiline. — MaxD, Apr 22 '14 at 16:10
Without a real example I cannot help you. Post the html code you have. — Pedro Lobito, Apr 22 '14 at 16:12
[Don't use regex to parse structured data.](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags) — tripleee, Apr 22 '14 at 17:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 22 '14 at 17:38

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You can repeat the whole pattern with a * and then add something that matches everything.

((?<prefix>[\s\S]*?)<style id=(?<id>[0-9]+)>(?<content>[\s\S]*?)</style>)*(?<suffix>[\s\S]*)

answered Apr 22 '14 at 17:38

dogiordano

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