how to express this in regex

Question

I have this :

<title>Title</title>

All I want to do is express this in regex. I have:

/<[A-Za-z]>\w<\/[A-Za-z]>

Can anyone help

What language? Are just trying to match that or do you want to extract the word `Title` (or whatever the title happens to be)? — NullUserException, Oct 03 '11 at 06:22

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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You need a + after each of the [] and after the \w to represent "one or more".

/<[A-Za-z]+>\w+<\/[A-Za-z]+>/

But it looks like you're trying to parse HTML with regex. You might want to consider not doing that.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

Community

answered Oct 03 '11 at 06:23

Amber

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 03 '11 at 06:27

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You should use a backreference. If you don't then you will match:

<title>blabla</otherTag>

Try this:

/<([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)\b[^>]*>(.*?)</\1>/

answered Oct 03 '11 at 06:27

Mosty Mostacho

thanks im just beginning to learn regex so thats a little to complex for me right now – Andrew Briggs Oct 03 '11 at 06:32
Oh, then I would recommend you to read this tutorial, particularly this chapter: http://www.regular-expressions.info/brackets.html – Mosty Mostacho Oct 03 '11 at 06:35

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