Question

I have a string coming out as:

<span class="abc"> test </span> styletext

I want to grab just the styletext part which is dynamic and give it some css styles.

Can I use regex to select the whole part after the white space and apply the style? How do I target the part after the white space?

Answer 1

Try this as a regex:

^/span\s*(.*)

You may need to escape the “\” depending on the language you are using.

The text captured in the group will be the style text.

It “translates” as: starting at the beginning of the string (^) match the text “/span”, followed by any number of whitespace characters (\s*), followed by any number of any type of character (.*). The parenthesis tells it to capture the last part for later use.