Simple regular expression to get text between
and next

Question

I have a string that contains this (and another things):

<b>SINOPSIS:</b><br/> 
Text text text and mooore text...<br/>

I need a reg-ex to get the text between those first two <br/> tags.

Thanks...

Note: There are more <br/> tags. I need the first occurrence only..

I will be using PHPs preg_match() function.

What regex engine will you be using? – Brandon Horsley Jul 28 '10 at 19:39 — Brandon Horsley, Jul 28 '10 at 19:39
I will be using PHPs preg_match() function. – Jonathan Jul 28 '10 at 19:41 — Jonathan, Jul 28 '10 at 19:41

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 14 '19 at 14:39

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this will work, make sure to enable multiline

there are other fancier ways with more checks ect...

edit:

preg_match('!\<br\/\>.+?\<br\/\>!s', $string);

Example 2 (For whitespace before close br),

!\<br\s*/?>.+?\<br\s*/?>!s

edited Sep 14 '19 at 14:39

Jaydeep Mor

answered Jul 28 '10 at 19:42

Viper_Sb

Not working. its getting the second pairs of br tags... Or maybe is a multi line problem. How to enable multi line? – Jonathan Jul 28 '10 at 19:49
it shouldn't be, can you post more of what you're matching against? as it should be limiting to the FIRST
and second then stop. – Viper_Sb Jul 28 '10 at 19:51
Like I said, its maybe a multi line problem. How to enable multi line? – Jonathan Jul 28 '10 at 19:51
my bad I put the wrong option in I edited my answer try that one – Viper_Sb Jul 28 '10 at 20:01
final version is there in case it helps, I removed the allowance for whitespaces in the
if you want those it can be done just more complicated – Viper_Sb Jul 28 '10 at 20:06

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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Allow me to point you to this brilliant answer by bobince that I stumbled upon when I was tempted to ask a similar question: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

Community

answered Jul 28 '10 at 20:08

KSwift87

2 Answers2