Can't get REGEX to work ((?=(<\/))(.*?)(?:\>))

Question

I have the following regex and it finds a partial solution for me:

((?=(<\/))(.*?)(?:\>))

Given the Following line:

</EventSubType><OrgUnitNm>###</OrgUnitNm></test:CommonAttributes><ProductArrangementBasic><ProductId>####</ProductId></part:Asking>

The regex will give me:

</EventSubType></OrgUnitNm></test:CommonAttributes></ProductId></part:Asking>

I want just:

</test:   </part:

Any help would be great.

Thank you.

The answer of this post will really help! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags — m_callens, Jul 13 '16 at 18:11
You explicitly require any chars up to the `>`. Try `<\/\w+:` — Wiktor Stribiżew, Jul 13 '16 at 18:16
Thing is that the string coming in is not a valid XML format. And I need to regex it to fix the errors. — Dalton Heiland, Jul 13 '16 at 18:20

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 13 '16 at 20:06

NOTE: if you are parsing HTML, you'd better use a dedicated library for that.

I suspect you are using the regex with PCRE /U tag, like /((?=(<\/))(.*?)(?:\>))/U.

If you want to obtain just </test: and </part:, you may use a much simpler regex:

/<\/\w+:/

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