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Asked: 2026-05-21T09:02:49+00:00

I’m trying to create a regex that takes all the content from <div class=entrytext>

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I’m trying to create a regex that takes all the content from <div class="entrytext"> to the first </p> next to this div class.

At the moment this is what I have:

(?<=<div class="entrytext">.*<p>).*(?></p>)

Is going well cause all the code above this div is not matching, but the issue that I’m having is after this <div> there are a lots of </p> in the document.

What I would like is to take all the content next this div but until the first </p> found.

Could you give me a hand? Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team
    1. Most regex parsers don’t allow for variable length lookbehinds
    2. You would need non-greedy operators (A ? after your *)
      (?<=<div class="entrytext">.*?<p>).*?(?></p>)
    3. Regex is (surprisingly for once) the tool for this job, but still look into html parsers, whatever you are doing that needs this probably would benefit from one.
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