Match open and close tag

Question

I have this string:

"<myTag att1="val1"><myTag></myTag></myTag><myTag></myTag>"

What I need is to match:

<myTag att1="val1"><myTag></myTag></myTag>

I tried with a regex but it gets:

<myTag att1="val1"><myTag></myTag>

How can I resolve?

what is your regex ? I think you should make the regex lazy like this : (.+?) — Arnaud Gueras, Jun 24 '16 at 12:41
So, you have just found out that you cannot use *JS regex to parse nested HTML tags. **JS regex does not support recursion**. Next step: learn parsing HTML with DOM. — Wiktor Stribiżew, Jun 24 '16 at 12:41
obligatory http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454 — pawel, Jun 24 '16 at 12:46

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 24 '16 at 12:55

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Eliminate the default greedy nature and write something below:-

(.+?)

Please note, att1="val1" might not recognize in the string in few editors. Hence for that prefix a '\'. But the above regex should work

answered Jun 24 '16 at 12:55

tdka

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 24 '16 at 12:49

0

Try it:

/(<myTag(\satt1="val1")*>)+(<\/myTag>)*/g

answered Jun 24 '16 at 12:49

msantos

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