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How to PREG any character?

moishy
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If I wanted to match for instance, all characters that are not in <TAGS>, I would search for all ">ANYTHING<".

But how do I make that "ANYTHING"?
What will be the PREG for absolutely ANY characer? (except ">" and "<")
Sep 25 '07 #1
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  1. [^><]+
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means one or more non-< and non-> character.
Sep 26 '07 #2
moishy
104 100+
It works for me.
But what do I do after I "htmlentitied" it?
I what to find: &gt; ANYTHING &lt;
Sep 30 '07 #3
pbmods
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Heya, moishy.

Since '&lt;' and '&gt;' do not contain any reserved characters, you can do something like this:
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  1. /(?<=^|&amp;gt;).+?(?=$|&amp;lt;)/
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Which will match any text in between (the start of the string or '&gt;') and (the end of the string or '&lt;').

For more information on using regular expressions, check out this site.
Sep 30 '07 #4

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