regex to find elements contain a string

Question

How to find an element contains a string? by regex. for example, i want to find elements contains string:

<div class="a"><span id="d">string</span></div>
<span style="color: red;">string</span>
<p class="c">string</p>

it should return: string, string, string.

thanks.

Why with regexes? Doesn't PHP have an HTML parser implementation? — fge, Dec 20 '11 at 21:02
@D.D.C: it's an example, my `div` has some other elements. and i want to find (and remove) which one contains `string`. — mrdaliri, Dec 20 '11 at 21:08

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:08

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The almost closest:

<([^ >]+)[^>]*>string</\1>

But it can fail on several badly formatted examples. And you should read one of the best answers on this topic.

HTH

edited May 23 '17 at 10:08

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answered Dec 20 '11 at 21:10

Zsolt Botykai

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