Match grouped list elements with regex

Question

I'm sure this question has been asked before, but I'm unable to find it.

I have a bunch of list elements like so:

<li class="list-item">aewfaffjpiowfj: apeifjeawpfioj</li>
<li class="list-item">aewfaffjpiowfj: apeifjeawpfioj</li>
<li class="list-item">aewfaffjpiowfj: apeifjeawpfioj</li>
<li class="list-item">aewfaffjpiowfj: apeifjeawpfioj</li>
<br><br>

sample text
<li class="list-item">aewfaffjpiowfj: apeifjeawpfioj</li>
<li class="list-item">aewfaffjpiowfj: apeifjeawpfioj</li>

more text
<li class="list-item">aewfaffjpiowfj: apeifjeawpfioj</li>

I want to wrap each group in a <ul></ul> element. How do I do that?

This is what I've tried, but it only matches the individual elements: /<li [^>]*>.*<\/li>/g

https://regex101.com/r/KXEkJz/1

And if I do /<li [^>]*>[\s\S]*<\/li>/g, it produces one giant match.

You said you want to wrap each "group" in a `
`. Do you consider them a group if there is only one line break between them? What makes it a group? — snollygolly, Jun 20 '17 at 01:29
Possible duplicate of [RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags) — Spencer Wieczorek, Jun 20 '17 at 01:29

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 20 '17 at 01:33

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If you want to group them by new lines, try something like this:

(<li [^>]*>.*<\/li>\n?)+

The only difference between it and yours is that it tries to capture multiple <li> objects and doesn't mind if there is a new line. If there's a new line followed by something different though, it stops matching.

answered Jun 20 '17 at 01:33

snollygolly

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Goodness. I can't believe I overlooked this simple answer. Thank you! – mythereal Jun 20 '17 at 01:35
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For future viewers, I had to wrap the solution in one more layer `/((?:
]*>.*<\/li>\n?)+)/g` before being able to do `
`.

mythereal

Jun 20 '17 at 01:51

Match grouped list elements with regex

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