Regex to get everything between 2 words

Question

I am trying to get through a lot of content and to extract some data from it. Therefore I need to pick the information between 2 set of characters.

It looks like this

***some text*** li&gt; ***data to capture*** &lt;/li ***more text***

What regex can I use to get everything that is enclosed between li> and </li ?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 19 '15 at 14:20

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Basically it will be like this:

li&gt;(.*?)(?:&lt;/li)

Depending on your language environment, certain characters may need to be escaped or the way of retrieving the matched string may differ. Typically you would need to escape / by prepending a backslash, resulting in this new version:

li&gt;(.*?)(?:&lt;\/li)

Here's a live demo: https://regex101.com/r/zV4uN6/1

edited Sep 19 '15 at 14:20

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answered Sep 19 '15 at 13:46

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Regex to get everything between 2 words

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