regexp problem..

[Ofloo]

i've got this issue with html tags, .. for some reason

this can be <div id="building_contract2"> or <div id="building_contract">

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regexp -nocase {<div id="building_contract"><div class="f10 b">.+?</div>(.+?)</div>} $data > build

works

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regexp -nocase {<div id="building_contract2"><div class="f10 b">.+?</div>(.+?)</div>} $data  > build

works

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regexp -nocase {<div id="building_contract[0-9]{0,1}"><div class="f10 b">.+?</div>(.+?)</div>} $data > build

doesn't work ..

why is that?

[nml375]

Just tested with some trivial data, and works just fine for me. You are using non-greedy quantifiers, so I can't see no good reason for the third one failing.

Could you post some real data that works/doesn't work?

[Ofloo]

it is kindoff a lot .. it's whole html page .. i did some tests to .. on emulated tests it works just fine however on a site it doesn't maybe i'm nto considering all special charaters,.. and should split the data before i regexp it .. i'll let you know how it turns out.

[speechles]

it is kindoff a lot .. it's whole html page .. i did some tests to .. on emulated tests it works just fine however on a site it doesn't maybe i'm nto considering all special charaters,.. and should split the data before i regexp it .. i'll let you know how it turns out.

This is why Webby was created. You can test/debug regular expressions on a webpage in real time with a pretty standard simple interface. This should help you debug the problem.

[Ofloo]

it's an page which requires authentication.. but it seems a nice script i often do this from console ..

ctrl u copy paste set data {htmlpage} then test my regexp

EDIT: And it seems to work in real time .. to figur..