Regex find and replace between
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I cant find anywhere a working regex expression to find and replace the text between the div tags

So there is this html where i want to select everything between the <div class="info"> and </div> tag and replace it with some other texts

<div class="extraUserInfo">
        <p>Hello World! This is a sample text</p>
        <javascript>.......blah blah blah etc etc
</div>

and replace it with

My custom text with some codes
<tags> asdasd asdasdasdasdasd</tags>

so it would look like

<div class="extraUserInfo">
        My custom text with some codes
<tags> asdasd asdasdasdasdasd</tags>
</div>

here is a refiddle that all my code is there and as you can see I want to replace the whole bunch of codes between the <div class='extraUserInfo"> and tag

http://refiddle.co/1h6j

Hope you get what I mean :)

@mpuria Your regex in your refiddle is incorrect, there needs to be a backslash in the slash in the closing div tag: /(?s)(
)(.*?)(<\/div>)/g — tommoyang, Sep 23 '14 at 22:35

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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If there's no nesting, would just do a plain match non-greedy (lazy)

(?s)<div class="extraUserInfo">.*?</div>

.*? matches any amount of any character (as few as possible) to meet </div>
Used s modifier for making the dot match newlines too.

Edit: Here a Javascript-version without s modifier

/<div class="extraUserInfo">[\s\S]*?<\/div>/g

And replace with new content:

<div class="extraUserInfo">My custom...</div>

See example at regex101; Regex FAQ

edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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answered Sep 23 '14 at 21:42

Jonny 5

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nope, not working :( here is a refiddle that includes my complete code – EngrAbbas Sep 23 '14 at 22:11
just made a quick search and it says it should be greedy [link here](http://i.imgur.com/wnv3GGN.png) – EngrAbbas Sep 23 '14 at 22:34
if i enter the regex without the # it says invalid regex so it should be greedy i suppose :/ – EngrAbbas Sep 23 '14 at 22:37
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Is this for Javascript or PHP/PCRE regex engine? If PHP try `#
.*?
#s` instead inline modifier. – Jonny 5 Sep 23 '14 at 22:39
WoW! It Worked! :D THANKS (y) – EngrAbbas Sep 23 '14 at 22:42

Regex find and replace between and tag

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Regex find and replace between
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