Looking for a regex to get the data stored within the angle <> brackets

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Ok I tried to google it but couldn't find a solution so I am asking here. I am trying to save the HTML tags into a variable in php. I am trying to use preg_match but cannot find the right pattern(regex). I did find one regex '\s*(.*?)\s*>\s*'. This works ok on the functions-online site where I try it and gives me the whole tag i.e.i=<body> but when I try to run it in my programme I get

preg_match(): Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash

It would be helpful if anyone could sort out this issue and even better if anyone could give the regex to get the data within the angle brackets(HTML tags)

Please also let me know if there is another method to store the html tags in php i.e.

<body>

then $var=body

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags <-- Read the 1st answer if you are considering "parsing" HTML with regexes
You need to add so called delimiters: '/\s*(.*?)\s*>\s*/'

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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answered Feb 07 '12 at 08:43

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Any other way you can think of to get the tag without the brackets? – Dhaval Bhavnagari Feb 07 '12 at 08:48
If you are using PHP5 you can take a look at http://docs.php.net/manual/en/domdocument.loadhtml.php – KillerX Feb 07 '12 at 08:52
Hey I did look at it but coudln't understand much lol will try it again Thanxx again killer X – Dhaval Bhavnagari Feb 07 '12 at 09:14
I basically just need the tag name not the text between the tags – Dhaval Bhavnagari Feb 08 '12 at 06:28
what happens if you have this: ``? This is just a very simple example but you can see how easy it is to get (at the very least) wrong results when using regex. – KillerX Feb 08 '12 at 08:01

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 09 '12 at 11:13

Ok Thanx to the link provided by killerx I did find a regex which could be use but it is not the best method but should work for my task

'\'<([a-z]+)[^>]*(?<!/)>\''

This should work. It will get the full tag in an array and the tag description in the other. Thanx a ton for helping me out

Looking for a regex to get the data stored within the angle <> brackets

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