Regex - select $ only when two conditions are met

Question

Conditions:

it has to be between <tag> and </tag>
between those tags, it has to have both  and {1}

Placement of  and {1} is random (but it's always between 2 tags).

If conditions are met, select only .

I'm spending half day for that, and can't get it working, haha. Working on regex101.

This is example:

<tag><b>{1}test</tag> 
<tag><b>test</tag>

As far as my knowledge goes, the rough concept is:

(?! ( (condition1)|(condition2) ) (select word) )

Meaning both condition1 and condition2 have to be met to select (select word). Is there something wrong..?

EDIT: Practical sample, from game files:

<Entry>
      <DefaultText>&lt;line-height=100%&gt;{0}% Damage and Healing, {1} &lt;link="glossary://GlossaryEntry_Fortitude"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fortitude&lt;/b&gt;&lt;space=0.7em&gt;&lt;#f9d968&gt;&lt;sprite="Inline" name="cs_fortitude" tint=1&gt;&lt;/color&gt;&lt;/link&gt;&lt;/line-height&gt;</DefaultText>

</Entry>

Placement of and {1} is random (but it's always between 2 tags) - this regex is for finding entries of game text entries (there is large amount, Pillars of Eternity) — namelessone, Jul 26 '18 at 17:46
And yes, test is placeholder, practically it will be any of texts in game — namelessone, Jul 26 '18 at 17:54
These are literal examples? Meaning, except for the text “test” everything else stays identical? Because otherwise it looks like you need an HTML parser, not regex: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/1968 — Konrad Rudolph, Jul 26 '18 at 17:55
It was placeholder, added now to original post a sample straight from game files. — namelessone, Jul 26 '18 at 18:01
Also, some entries don't have {/d}, hence the 2 conditionals for regex — namelessone, Jul 26 '18 at 18:02
Yeah, don’t use regex for this. It’s the wrong tool for the job. — Konrad Rudolph, Jul 26 '18 at 18:02
What do you suggest then? Mind you, I'm not really tech savvy when it comes to codes — namelessone, Jul 26 '18 at 18:04
What programming language do you know? Does the whole file start with something like ``? — Casimir et Hippolyte, Jul 26 '18 at 18:07
As mentioned, use an HTML (or XML) parser. Every modern programming language has at least one library for that. — Konrad Rudolph, Jul 26 '18 at 18:08
@namelessone perhaps you should edit your open post with: `Placement of and {1} is random` as per your comment. Seems to be quite important here. — Paolo, Jul 26 '18 at 18:20
@CasimiretHippolyte it's XML. For your second question, just delete (which could be done by replacing selection to nothingness) — namelessone, Jul 26 '18 at 18:25
None I'm afraid. I'm just helping modder with gui mod for game. — namelessone, Jul 26 '18 at 18:28
@JacobBoertjes since the ( in this example) is between tags (either textdefault or entry) and this text has both and {any number}, it should select only  — namelessone, Jul 26 '18 at 18:35
@namelessone can you please try [(?:.*\{1}.*.*|.*.*\{1}).*<\/tag>](https://regex101.com/r/rEx9xJ/4) ? — Paolo, Jul 26 '18 at 18:40
@UnbearableLightness tested, unfortunately it didn't select anything. Casimir's solution works. But thank you very much for trying! — namelessone, Jul 26 '18 at 18:51
Yeah it was for your initial test cases, was not adapted for the practical sample, yet :) But @CasimiretHippolyte's solution is better. — Paolo, Jul 26 '18 at 18:56
Sorry, I have forgotten to write `` in the last line: https://regex101.com/r/797VwV/2/ — Casimir et Hippolyte, Jul 26 '18 at 19:12
`select $ only when two conditions are met` So, where is the dollar sign ? — , Jul 26 '18 at 19:28
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because the OP admits to not knowing any programming. This is a programming site. — , Jul 26 '18 at 20:43

Andrei Odegov · Answer 1 · 2018-07-27T03:38:42.037

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Check on the next regex <tag>(?=(?:(?!<\/?tag>).)*?)(?=(?:(?!<\/?tag>).)*?\{1})(?:(?!<\/?tag>).)*<\/tag>.

To try the regex online and get an explanation, please click here.

edited Jul 27 '18 at 03:38

answered Jul 26 '18 at 20:19

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