Need Regex explained

[Rufnex]

Hello,

can anyone explain me step by step the following Regex?

reg = '(?:<script.*?>)((\n|\r|.)*?)(?:<\/script>)';

thx!

Rufnex

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Rufnex wrote:

can anyone explain me step by step the following Regex?

reg = '(?:<script.*?>)((\n|\r|.)*?)(?:<\/script>)';

`-------------'`-----------'`------------'
This Regular Expression matches

"<script" followed by none or more characters that are not "\r" or
"\n" (shortest possible match)
followed by ">" (the match will not be captured)
followed by none or more of "\n", "\r" or a character that is not "\r" or
"\n" (shortest possible match, both this match and the contained
alternation are captured)
followed by "</script>" (the match will not be captured).

It is supported from JavaScript 1.5 (Mozilla/5.0), JScript 3.0 (IE 3.0;
however from other ECMAScript features I guess that non-capturing parens
and non-greedy matching were not introduced before JScript 5.5, IE 5.5 --
comments anyone?) and ECMAScript 3 on.

RTFM:

<URL:http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference:Global_Objects:RegEx p>
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/jscript7/html/jsreconintroductiontoregularexpressions.asp>
PointedEars

[Rufnex]

Hi Thomas,

big thanks to you! i just started to learn regex with js ..
Oki, i will read TFM ;o)

Rufnex

[Jasen Betts]

On 2005-12-10, Rufnex <in**@jg-webdesign.de> wrote:

Hello,

can anyone explain me step by step the following Regex?

reg = '(?:<script.*?>)((\n|\r|.)*?)(?:<\/script>)';

no. is that exactly as you posted it?

it looks like it might match scripts in a string containg an HTML document

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Bye.
Jasen