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RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

What is the fastest Regular Expression, to catch the ending of the first <div></div> tag-wrapper?

$strTemplateResult = 

    '<div id="myIdMayBeDifferent" class="myClassMayBeDifferent">

       <!-- match here. stop ! -->

       <p>Don't be confused because of some neat lorem ipsum dolor.</p>

    </div>';

Answer 1

Consider giving up on the idea of parsing your HTML with regex, and use something like simple html dom.

$html = file_get_html($html);
$div = $html->find('div', 0);

Otherwise yes, you may awake to find HTML tags lea͠ki̧n͘g fr̶ǫm ̡yo​͟ur eye͢s̸ ̛l̕ik͏e liq​uid pain.