Question

I want to match the following expression in notepad ++, how can I do that ?
<table align="center" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="3" border="1" bgcolor="#B1A0C7">

I want to match from the beginning of <table and then all in between characters and stop at the first >

i did the following but it doesn’t work for me
(<table).*>$ it keep getting the last > in the line … I want the first >

Answer 1

Try this:

<table[^>]*?>

explain:

*?
Matches the previous element zero or more times, but as few times as possible.

[^character_group]
Negation: Matches any single character that is not in character_group.