Question

Been beating my head against a wall trying to get this to work – help from any regex gurus would be greatly appreciated!

The text that has to be matched

[template option="whatever"] 

<p>any amount of html would go here</p>

[/template]

I need to pull the ‘option’ value (i.e. ‘whatever’) and the html between the template tags.

So far I have:

> /\[template\s*option=["\']([^"\']+)["\']\]((?!\[\/template\]))/

Which gets me everything except the html between the template tags.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Chris

Answer 1

edit: [\s\S] will match anything that is space or not space.

you may have a problem when there are consecutive blocks in a large string. in that case you will need to make a more specific quantifier – either non greedy (+?) or specify range {1,200} or make the [\s\S] more specific

/\[template\s*option=["\']([^"\']+)["\']\]([\s\S]+)\[\/template\]/