I want to match groups between opening and ending tags in a multiline text via regular expression.
I know that this question has been asked a lot before here in this community...
Unfortunately, I am facing some restrictions of my regex parser in this way that I cannot use whole language support of regular expression.
For example, it is not possible to use shortcuts like \s or \S :(...
Example source:
<html>
<p>
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
</p>
</html>
The following regex would work perfectly: (<p>[\s|\S]+</p>).
As I mentioned before, I am not able to use shortcuts like \s or \S.
Therefore I tried to rewrite the regex by using character classes like [:space:].
And that's the point I don't understand what's happening.
If I simply replace the \s and \S by [[:space:]] and [^[:space:]] the regex does not work anymore...
(<p>[[^[:space:]]|[[:space:]]]+</p>)
Can anyone help me out here?
BR Steve
You might have some extra brackets there.
This seems to work.
https://regex101.com/r/D9pydg/1
where group 1 gets the lines.