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Asked: 2026-05-10T23:16:14+00:00

I need to match a string holiding html using a regex to pull out

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I need to match a string holiding html using a regex to pull out all the nested spans, I assume I assume there is a way to do this using a regex but have had no success all morning.

So for a sample input string of 

<DIV id=c445c9c2-a02e-4cec-b254-c134adfa4192 style='BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #eeeeee'> <SPAN id=b8db8cd1-f600-448f-be26-2aa56ea09a9c> <SPAN id=304ccd38-8161-4def-a557-1a048c963df4> <IMG src='http://avis.co.uk/Assets/build/menu.gif'> </SPAN> </SPAN> <SPAN id=bc88c866-5370-4c72-990b-06fbe22038d5> <SPAN id=55b88bbe-15ca-49c9-ad96-cecc6ca7004e>UK<BR></SPAN> </SPAN> <SPAN id=52bb62ca-8f0a-42f1-a13b-9b263225ff1d> <SPAN id=0e1c3eb6-046d-4f07-96c1-d1ac099d5f1c> <IMG src='http://avis.co.uk/Assets/build/menu.gif'> </SPAN> </SPAN> <SPAN id=4c29eef2-cd77-4d33-9828-e442685a25cb> <SPAN id=0d5a266a-14ae-4a89-9263-9e0ab57f7ad2>Italy</SPAN> </SPAN> <SPAN id=f0a72eea-fddd-471e-89e6-56e9b9efbece> <SPAN id=b7d9ada7-ade0-49fe-aa5f-270237e87c2b> <IMG src='http://avis.co.uk/Assets/build/menu.gif'> </SPAN> </SPAN> <SPAN id=7604df94-34ba-4c89-bf11-125df01731ff> <SPAN id=330d6429-4f1b-46a2-a485-9001e2c6b8c1>Netherlands</SPAN> </SPAN> <SPAN id=a18fb516-451e-4c32-ab31-3e3be29235f6> <SPAN id=6c70238d-78f9-468f-bb8d-370fff13c909> <IMG src='http://avis.co.uk/Assets/build/menu.gif'> </SPAN> </SPAN> <SPAN id=5a2465eb-b337-4f94-a4f8-6f5001dfbd75> <SPAN id=47877a9e-a7d5-4f13-a41e-6948f899e385>Malta &amp; Gozo

i would want to get each outer span and its containing span so in the above text there should be Eight results

Any help gladly accepted

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  1. Try this:

    @'(?is)<SPAN\b[^>]*>\s*(<SPAN\b[^>]*>.*?</SPAN>)\s*</SPAN>'

    This is basically the same as PhiLho’s regex, except it permits whitespace between the tags at either end. I also had to add the SingleLine/DOTALL modifier to accomodate line separators within the matched text. I don’t know if either of those changes was really necessary; the sample data the OP posted was all on one line, but PhiLho broke it up (thereby breaking his own regex).

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