Question

I have written a regex for extracting HTML a tag which has a class with name “c”.
My regex expression is:

<div class=\"c\"(.*?)\<\/div\>

I have a huge HTML but the div which I want to extract is:

<div class="c">
    <a name="Adil Arif Bawany" href="/adil.arif.bawany?refid=5">
    </a>
    </br>
    <a href="tel:[phone]">Call</a>

</div>

This should work but but when I find out if there are any matches then boolean gives me false.

My code is:

String matchpa = "<div class=\\\"c\\\"(.*?)\\<\\/div\\>";
Pattern patt = Pattern.compile(matchpa);
Matcher m = patt.matcher(html);

boolean matchFound = m.matches();

Answer 1

Try with this:

String matchpa = "<div class=\"c\"(.|\n|\r)*</div>";

It seems to match.

By the way, this tool is very useful when dealing with reg exp.

Hope it helps

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