Php regular expression to match a div

Question

Foo Bar

     <div id="c">
       Bar
      </div>

I want find all object in id="a" and out put is

 <div id="a">
   <div id="b">
    Foo
  </div>
   <div id="m">
   Bar
  </div>
 </div>

Geat thanks.

See [RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags) — Matthew Flaschen, Jun 02 '10 at 11:08

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 02 '10 at 11:10

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SimpleHTMLDom is memory consuming solution. It may cause memory leaks. I recommend using DOMDocument and DOMXPath. Then you can fetch all div#a by this way:

$xpath->query('//div[@id = "a"]')

answered Jun 02 '10 at 11:10

Radek Simko

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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Seems the community has responded to this before as a bad idea. Looks to be other, better ways. Jquery, HTML parsers, etc.

A search on regex in SO

StackOverflow Thoughts on Regex and HTML

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edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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answered Jun 02 '10 at 11:08

Tommy

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Php regular expression to match a div

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