Regexp help - getting content between two html tags

This would work for you:
<h3 .*</h3>

or
<h3 class="post-title".*</h3>

Simple Perl to find center tag content

$foo = <<EOF;
<h3 class="post-title">
       <a href="http://www.example.com">
       Legal Support Services
       </a>
</h3>
EOF

while ($foo =~ /\<(\w+)(.*?)\>(.*?)\<(\/\1)\>/si)
{
        $foo = $3;
}

print "Center match is \"$foo\"\r\n";

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This is being coded in ASP. Thanks for the code beezleinc but there will be a lot more text before (and after) the H3 tag. I need to isolate the text just between the opening H3 and closing H3 tag.

do you have nested <h3> tags?  

Never. It will always be:

Lots of html
<h3 class="post-title>
some text and MAYBE an <a> tag
</h3>
lots more html

then   "<h3 .+?>(.+?)</h3>"  should work.

make sure your regex call is case insensitive if need be and can span multiple lines.  Not too familiar with ASP syntax but regex expressions are pretty universal.

you may have to escape the "/",  "<" and ">" characters in the regex string... i.e.  "\<h3.+?\>(.+?)\<\/h3\>"

it is not perfect and if you have multiple <h3></h3> tag sets in the input it will just return the first match (or should)  

Also watch out for additional whitespace that can screw up the regex if it is not accounted for.  i.e. "</h3>" will not match "</h3  >"

@beezleinc

>>  ASP syntax but regex expressions are pretty universal.

LOL.  In which universe?  ;)


You have to enable single-line mode for the dot to match newlines. Also, your pattern will not catch tags like:

    <h3>...</h3>

This would be a better option:

(?s)<h3[^>]*>.+?</h3>

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@kaufmed

So should I have multiline on or off? And... I don't want to match ALL h3's, just the one with class="post-title" attribute and nothing more. So the "[^>]* would be counter-productive I think...

Ah ha! That's what I was looking for: [\s\S]

That did the trick! Thanks!

NP. Glad to help  :)