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Re: Break up an anchor tag.

2009-01-16T13:55:37Z

Peter Boughton wrote:
> Hi Ian, I've cc-ed you directy incase the HoF emailing doesn't work again.
>
> Hmm, well in theory you'd make the outer bits non-greedy, but when
> you've effectively made all parts optional, I'm not sure about
> specifying a "priority" for which optional one is most important...
> <a([^>]*?)(target="[^"]*")?([^>]*?)>
>

Thanks, I got this message. It looks like I posted my own code in my
first thread
[http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/regex/thread.cfm/threadid:232#1213]
about the same time as you posted yours here. I knew I could fairly
easily develop code that would accomplish my goal if I broke it up into
several steps. But as I am not very skilled at Regular Expressions yet
and this is just for a playtime project, I wanted to see how it could be
done with Regular Expressions as my intuition said it should be able to
be done.

If you care to review and critique my code I would be most happy to hear
what you might have to say.

Thanks for you help.
Ian

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Re: Break up an anchor tag.

2009-01-16T12:50:24Z

Hi Ian, I've cc-ed you directy incase the HoF emailing doesn't work again.

> The first ([^]*) clause captures all the
> properties of the anchor tag including the target property. I want them
> separated.

Hmm, well in theory you'd make the outer bits non-greedy, but when
you've effectively made all parts optional, I'm not sure about
specifying a "priority" for which optional one is most important...
<a([^>]*?)(target="[^"]*")?([^>]*?)>

That aside, your wording suggests you're attempting to get three
separate matches out of that (one for each parenthesis group), but
with rematch function you get an array of matches per expression, but
not an array of groups per match.

If you want that, then you need to grab each anchor, then loop through
and manually convert each one.

Along the lines of this...

<cfset Anchors = rematch( '<a[^>]+>' , Input )/>

<cfdump var="#Anchors#"/>

<hr/>

<cfset Delim = Chr(65536)/>

<cfloop index="i" from="1" to="#ArrayLen(Anchors)#">

<cfset AnchorParts = rereplace( Anchors[i] ,
'<a([^>]*?)(target\s*=\s*"[^"]+")([^>]*?)>' , '\1#Delim#\2#Delim#\3' )
/>

<cfdump var="#ListToArray( AnchorParts , Delim )#" label="#Anchors[i]#"/>

</cfloop>



Assuming I'm not misunderstanding you entirely, this still all seems a
bit of an odd request - if you're able to expand more on the overall
problem you're trying to solve (not the regex side, but why are you
doing this, what is the relevance of target here, etc), then it might
be possible to suggest a better overall solution.

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Break up an anchor tag.

2009-01-16T08:39:30Z

I did not get any responses to yesterday's question so here it is again,
rephrased.

Using ColdFusion 8's regex functionality how could I capture everything
before a target property, the target property - if it exists- and
everything after the target property.

I can do this, when the target property exists with this regex, but this
fails if the target property does not exist.
<(/?)a([^>]*)(target="[^"]*")([^>]*)

If I add anything to make the the target clause optional ?,*,??,*?, I
get unexpected behavior. The first ([^]*) clause captures all the
properties of the anchor tag including the target property. I want them
separated.

I've tried other methods to select everything before the target property
such as just .*? but nothing I have tried has worked.

P.S. this will need to work with strings that could contain multiple
anchor tags and should not grab content from more then one tag.

Thanks Ian

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Re: Matching anchor tags

2009-01-15T13:56:01Z

I can't figure out what you're attempting to do... can you re-explain
the aim of the expression?

Do you want to match the opening tag and the closing tag, or just one
or the other?
Are you attempting to remove/replace the target tag, or everything
except it, or something else?

A closing tag is just </a> - no need to complicate things unless you
need to link it to the related opening tag for some reason?

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Matching anchor tags

2009-01-15T13:38:58Z

I am trying to match everything in an anchor tag, except the target
property. I have this regex:
<(/?)a([^>]*)target="[^"]*"([^>]*)>

Which is working well for the opening <a>nchor tag. But it does not
match the closing tag because a closing tag does not have a target
property. How would I make the entire 'target="[^"]" in the middle
optional?

I tried wrapping it in parenthesis and putting a '?' after it, but that
does not seem to work.
<(/?)a([^>]*)(target="[^"]*")?([^>]*)>

Thank You
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Re: convert a php regex to coldfusion regex

2008-11-26T06:45:41Z

Brilliant, thanks Peter. One day I will "click" with regex!

Cheers,

Dave

2008/11/26 Peter Boughton <boughtonp@...>:

>> If you have time could you explain what each part of the regex is
>> doing, so that I can learn for future?
>
> Sure. :)
>
>
> Starting with the original PHP one:
> /(\s)(\w+)$/i
>
> the /.../i means "a regular expression, using the i flag"
> the i flag is "case-Insensitive"
>
> the (\s) is "a group consisting of a single whiteSpace character
> (space,tab,newline)"
>
> the (\w+) is "a group consisting of one or more Word characters"
> the + part of that means "one or more"
>
> the $ at the end means "end of line" or "end of expression", depending
> on if the expression is multi-line or not. It matches the position,
> not a character (it is a zero-width match).
>
>
> The slashes are used for PHP when you want to specify a flag - if you
> had no flags, the slashes are not necessary.
> Some languages (JavaScript) can work with non-quoted slashes, whilst
> others (CFML) do not use the slash convention at all.
>
> In all of these, there is an alternative way to specify flags, using
> the construct (?i) - note that anything (?...) is a special group,
> that acts differently to other groups. (note: this construct can be
> used for a lot more than just flags - primarily lookarounds, but other
> stuff too)
>
> In CFML, you can use reReplaceNoCase instead of the i flag, which is
> more readable for people that don't know regex.
>
>
> In the replace string of " and $2" or " and \2" in the PHP/CFML ones,
> the $2 or \2 is a backreference referring to group 2 - i.e. the second
> pair of parentheses, containing the \w+ ("one or more word
> characters")
>
>
> In the simplified version, I removed the flag, removed the groups,
> removed the space, and changed the replace string, so we ended up
> with:
>
> reReplace( wkstr , '\w+$','and \0' )
>
> The flag was unnecessary - the \w means "any word character" and is
> not case sensitive.
>
> The \s was unnecessary because the \w+ will capture all of the
> characters upto the space, and we were just putting the space back in,
> so I took both the \s out and the space before the "and" out also.
>
> With the \s gone, there was no need to group the characters and use \2
> (or \1 as it would have become) - instead I used \0 in the replace
> string, which means "the entire content of the match", rather than one
> of the groups within it.
>
>
> So, I think that covers everything - hopefully it all makes sense, and
> wasn't information overload.
> Let me know if you'd like any part clarified/re-worded. :)
>
>

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Re: convert a php regex to coldfusion regex

2008-11-26T05:51:40Z

> If you have time could you explain what each part of the regex is
> doing, so that I can learn for future?

Sure. :)

Starting with the original PHP one:
/(\s)(\w+)$/i

the /.../i means "a regular expression, using the i flag"
the i flag is "case-Insensitive"

the (\s) is "a group consisting of a single whiteSpace character
(space,tab,newline)"

the (\w+) is "a group consisting of one or more Word characters"
the + part of that means "one or more"

the $ at the end means "end of line" or "end of expression", depending
on if the expression is multi-line or not. It matches the position,
not a character (it is a zero-width match).

The slashes are used for PHP when you want to specify a flag - if you
had no flags, the slashes are not necessary.
Some languages (JavaScript) can work with non-quoted slashes, whilst
others (CFML) do not use the slash convention at all.

In all of these, there is an alternative way to specify flags, using
the construct (?i) - note that anything (?...) is a special group,
that acts differently to other groups. (note: this construct can be
used for a lot more than just flags - primarily lookarounds, but other
stuff too)

In CFML, you can use reReplaceNoCase instead of the i flag, which is
more readable for people that don't know regex.

In the replace string of " and $2" or " and \2" in the PHP/CFML ones,
the $2 or \2 is a backreference referring to group 2 - i.e. the second
pair of parentheses, containing the \w+ ("one or more word
characters")

In the simplified version, I removed the flag, removed the groups,
removed the space, and changed the replace string, so we ended up
with:

reReplace( wkstr , '\w+$','and \0' )

The flag was unnecessary - the \w means "any word character" and is
not case sensitive.

The \s was unnecessary because the \w+ will capture all of the
characters upto the space, and we were just putting the space back in,
so I took both the \s out and the space before the "and" out also.

With the \s gone, there was no need to group the characters and use \2
(or \1 as it would have become) - instead I used \0 in the replace
string, which means "the entire content of the match", rather than one
of the groups within it.

So, I think that covers everything - hopefully it all makes sense, and
wasn't information overload.
Let me know if you'd like any part clarified/re-worded. :)

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Re: convert a php regex to coldfusion regex

2008-11-26T05:16:44Z

Many thanks Peter,

The " Sunday" was appended after the regex was applied so your
solution works perfectly.

If you have time could you explain what each part of the regex is
doing, so that I can learn for future?

Cheers,

Dave

2008/11/26 Peter Boughton <boughtonp@...>:
> Sorry, brain-dead for a moment. :(
>
> The two expressions above are incorrect - they should be
>
> $wkstr = reReplaceNoCase($wkstr,'(\s)(\w+)$',' and \2')
>
> wkstr = reReplace( wkstr , '\w+$','and \0' )
>
>

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Re: convert a php regex to coldfusion regex

2008-11-26T04:39:29Z

Sorry, brain-dead for a moment. :(

The two expressions above are incorrect - they should be

$wkstr = reReplaceNoCase($wkstr,'(\s)(\w+)$',' and \2')

wkstr = reReplace( wkstr , '\w+$','and \0' )

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Re: convert a php regex to coldfusion regex

2008-11-26T04:28:45Z

I'm not certain that regex is doing exactly what you say it is, but
simply converting the PHP directly to CFML isas follows:

$wkstr = reReplaceNoCase('(\s)(\w+)$',' and \2',$wkstr)

Although the $ at the start of the variable names are not required in
CF, and the expression doesn't need to be that complex.

This should do the same thing:

wkstr = reReplace( '\w+$' , 'and \0' , wkstr )

For any of these expressions to work though, they can't be ran against
the entire "Every first second third fourth Sunday at 11:15" string,
but only on the "first second third fourth" string, otherwise they
will not work as desired.

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convert a php regex to coldfusion regex

2008-11-26T03:07:51Z

Hi,

I am afraid that my regex skills are weak and I am in the final stage
of converting a php script to a coldfusion one. I am building a string
which can be of the form:

Every first second third fourth Sunday at 11:15

What the php regex does is changes the above to read:

Every first second third and fourth Sunday at 11:15

It adds the " and".

The php regex is as follows:

$wkstr = preg_replace('/(\s)(\w+)$/i',' and $2',$wkstr);

and I need to convert this to a ReReplace function. I have looked at
the php docs to try and decipher the above regex but I don't seem to
be getting anywhere. I also don't know enough about cf regex to know
what I should convert it to.

Can anyone help, please?

Many thanks,

Dave

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Re: [URGENT] Incremental matches!

2008-11-22T11:05:33Z

well guys
this works fine thank you all

select *
from NODE_TABLE
where '1.1.1.2.1' like id + '%' and id not like '1.1.1.2.1%'

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Re: [URGENT] Incremental matches!

2008-11-20T09:26:26Z

Well
Chris Porter, has just replied me with a smart solution but I can't test it right now until I get to work. I don't know why he can't post here.

this is the solution:

select *
from NODE_TABLE
where '1.1.1.2.1' like id + '%' and id not like '1.1.1.2.1%'

We are using OpenJPA and Oracle database. I am eager to check if it works well

Thanks all

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Re: [URGENT] Incremental matches!

2008-11-20T07:11:20Z

Well, I have a tree structure in database in which each node has its own unique id as above, say 1.1.1.2.1 now by given a node and its position (the same id) I have to extract all its parents and return back to the client. the parents' ids are identified by that unique id (1, 1.1, 1.1.1 AND 1.1.1.2) if it was only one node there was no problem using a for loop but we may have hundreds of these nodes and should extract all of them each for a user concurrently and this is a performance issue

now I am welcome if you can help me on this with anything better than Regex

thanks

Peter Boughton wrote:

> Thanks Adrian, No actually I am using Java Regex but I think they are alike.
> I want not to use any for loop

Why not?

Can you provide more context as to what you're actually doing? It
might enable a better answer.

You can do:
^\d for 1
^\d(\.\d){1} for 1.1
^\d(\.\d){2} for 1.1.2
^\d(\.\d){3} for 1.1.2.1
etc

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Re: [URGENT] Incremental matches!

2008-11-19T14:54:55Z

> Thanks Adrian, No actually I am using Java Regex but I think they are alike.
> I want not to use any for loop

Why not?

Can you provide more context as to what you're actually doing? It
might enable a better answer.

You can do:
^\d for 1
^\d(\.\d){1} for 1.1
^\d(\.\d){2} for 1.1.2
^\d(\.\d){3} for 1.1.2.1
etc

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Re: [URGENT] Incremental matches!

2008-11-19T10:08:35Z

> consider the current position I have is "1.1.2.1.3"
>
> I need to extract the following values:
>
> 1
> 1.1
> 1.1.2
> 1.1.2.1
> 1.1.2.1.3

I don't think there's a way to get that with a single regex... But this
would work

<cfset a = [] />
<cfloop index="x" list="1.1.2.1.3" delimiter=".">
<cfset temp = a[arraylen(a)] />
<cfset temp = listappend(temp,x,".") />
<cfset arrayAppend(a,temp) />
</cfloop>

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isn't it time for a change?
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RE: [URGENT] Incremental matches!

2008-11-19T09:06:06Z

Adrian Lynch wrote:

Are you using ColdFusion?

No need to use RegEx, it's a list so:

<cfoutput>
<cfloop list="#position#" index="i">
#i#<br />
</cfloop>
</cfoutput>

Not a complete solution for you but you can see how to get at all the list
elements.

Thanks Adrian, No actually I am using Java Regex but I think they are alike. I want not to use any for loop

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RE: [URGENT] Incremental matches!

2008-11-19T05:19:52Z

Are you using ColdFusion?

No need to use RegEx, it's a list so:

<cfoutput>
<cfloop list="#position#" index="i">
#i#<br />
</cfloop>
</cfoutput>

Not a complete solution for you but you can see how to get at all the list
elements.

Adrian
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-----Original Message-----
From: is_maximum
Sent: 19 November 2008 13:14
To: regex
Subject: [URGENT] Incremental matches!

Hello
I have a string we call it position and this is in the form of '1.2.1.1'

consider the current position I have is "1.1.2.1.3"

I need to extract the following values:

1
1.1
1.1.2
1.1.2.1
1.1.2.1.3

or if position is "1.1.2"

I need:
1
1.1
1.1.2

is this possible by using Regex?

thanks

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Regards

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[URGENT] Incremental matches!

2008-11-19T03:12:27Z

Hello
I have a string we call it position and this is in the form of '1.2.1.1'

consider the current position I have is "1.1.2.1.3"

I need to extract the following values:

1
1.1
1.1.2
1.1.2.1
1.1.2.1.3

or if position is "1.1.2"

I need:
1
1.1
1.1.2

is this possible by using Regex?

thanks

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Re: Capitalize first letter of all words.

2008-10-02T10:35:14Z

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 18:15, Ian Skinner <HOF@...> wrote:
> The trick being that this has to work on a ColdFusion 4.5 server, so the
> /u switch is apparently out!

Does it work if you put the slash the right way round? (it's \u not /u)

Can CF4.5 use Java objects? If so, you can use RegEx within Java.

> I have reReplace(myString,'(^.| .)','-\1-','ALL') working so that it
> captures the first character of all the words.

Hmmm, at the very least those "." should almost certainly be "\w".
Depending on what you're actually doing, simply "\b\w" might be better.
(But that doesn't help without being able to act on the results)

> Now I need to find away
> to convert the back reference to an upper case version of itself.
>
> Anybody got any ideas?

Other than using Java, if possible, I can't think of a RegEx solution for this.

However, this is a crude non-RegEx solution that might be good enough for you:

<cfloop index="i" from="1" to="#ListLen(myString,' ')#">
<cfset CurWord = ListGetAt( myString , i , ' ' )/>
<cfset CapsWord = UCase(Left(CurWord,1)) & Right(CurWord,Len(CurWord)-1)/>
<cfset myString = ListSetAt( myString , i , CapsWord , ' ' )/>
</cfloop>

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RE: Capitalize first letter of all words.

2008-10-02T10:33:06Z

If you don't mind a loop solution:

http://cflib.org/index.cfm?event=page.udfbyid&udfid=889

Adrian

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From: Ian Skinner [mailto:HOF@...]
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To: regex
Subject: Capitalize first letter of all words.

The trick being that this has to work on a ColdFusion 4.5 server, so the
/u switch is apparently out!

I have reReplace(myString,'(^.| .)','-\1-','ALL') working so that it
captures the first character of all the words. Now I need to find away
to convert the back reference to an upper case version of itself.

Anybody got any ideas?

TIA
IAN

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Capitalize first letter of all words.

2008-10-02T10:15:18Z

The trick being that this has to work on a ColdFusion 4.5 server, so the
/u switch is apparently out!

I have reReplace(myString,'(^.| .)','-\1-','ALL') working so that it
captures the first character of all the words. Now I need to find away
to convert the back reference to an upper case version of itself.

Anybody got any ideas?

TIA
IAN

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Re: Find a table cell containing an image tag.

2008-08-28T13:06:28Z

> they are irrelevant and unavailable to this conversion exercise. I
> could make them compliant and ignore them. But since this is more a
> learning exercise then anything...

Fair enough on both counts. :)

> The main features I do not grok is the what role the [^>] plays

That's for if you don't know (or don't want to limit) what attributes
a tag contains.

A tag cannot contain a > character - any necessary ones would be
escaped as >

You could use a non-greedy wildcard like <tag.*?> but I use <tag[^>]*>
as it is more precise.

> how to interpret this part in front of the negative look behind; ?:[^/]/

Ah, you're mis-reading that slightly. There are a few parts at play
here, I'll attempt to explain them individually in a simpler
context...

(note, I'm adding spaces purely for readability - pretend there are no
spaces in any of the following examples)

( x | y ) is the standard "x OR y" - the parentheses are necessary to
prevent the OR from applying to the whole of the expression.

However, using parentheses means that regex will capture the contents
for a backreference. This is not necessary here, so tell it to discard
the contents, we put ?: inside the parens, so we get (?: x | y )
p.s. this also works without the OR operator - just as (?: x )

The first part of the OR is [^/] which means simply "not /" - putting
caret (^) inside brackets negates them.
e.g [^abc] means "a single character that is not a nor b nor c"

Then, there's a negative lookahead which is (?! x ) and is the inverse
of a regular lookahead - i.e. it makes sure the contents of the parens
are NOT there.
As with all lookarounds, it is zero-width - it matches only a position
not actual characters. That is perhaps the key to understanding how
they work - that no characters are ever consumed by a lookaround, but
they still must match against the characters that follow the current
position.

Since we're dealing with a position, we need a preceeding character to
actually proceed with the match
For example x (?! y ) will match any x that is not followed a y (but
it will match only the x and will continue checking the rest of the
pattern from the next character).

Since I mentioned the non-capturing (?: x ) above, I'll point out that
this command is implicit in all lookarounds - they do not capture
their contents for backreferences.

So, to put all that together, what all this (?: [^/] | / (?! td> ) )
is actually saying is:
Look for anything that is not a slash OR if you do find a slash only
accept it if it is not followed by the characters "td>", and when you
find either of these don't bother remembering it and just move on.

Or, put simpler, "if you find /td> in this section then stop trying to match"

Hopefully all of that makes sense? Feel free to ask if any part is unclear. :)

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Re: Find a table cell containing an image tag.

2008-08-28T12:24:33Z

Peter Boughton wrote:
> Just replace <img([^>]*[^/])> with <img\1/> and not worry about the tables?
>
The main reason is that the fix I'm using is to remove the images, since
they are irrelevant and unavailable to this conversion exercise. I
could make them compliant and ignore them. But since this is more a
learning exercise then anything, I wanted to see if I could match the
entire <td...> block and remove it, since without the <img...> tag the
cells would be empty.

> Well, with a known set of source data that's fine, but potentially
> that could match <td align="center">[stuff]</td><td><img/></td>
>
> That's why the more general solution needs the negative lookahead for
> /td> - to make sure that any img found is still within the opening
> table cell.
> The non-greedy matching (.*?) is not smart enough to do that for you.
>
> Hope this all helps. :)
>

It did, but could somebody parse the regex syntax for me in plain
English. I can say I could only understand about half of it on sight.
<td[^>]*>(?:[^/]|/(?!td>))*<img[^>].*?</td>

The main features I do not grok is the what role the [^>] plays and how
to interpret this part in front of the negative look behind; ?:[^/]/

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Re: Find a table cell containing an image tag.

2008-08-28T06:57:32Z

> the reason I'm looking for these <img...>
> tags, is because they are not XHTML compliant and I needed to fix that
> so that I could get this HTML fragment into an acceptable XML mode.

So, why are you worrying about the tables if it's the image tags that
are the issue?

Just replace <img([^>]*[^/])> with <img\1/> and not worry about the tables?

I believe there are some XPath processors that can handle non-XML
HTML, but only because I've read a couple of references to such -
couldn't give any examples/recommendations.

> With a great deal of trial and error I finally came up with this.
> <td align="center">.*?(?=<img).*?</td>

Well, with a known set of source data that's fine, but potentially
that could match <td align="center">[stuff]</td><td><img/></td>

That's why the more general solution needs the negative lookahead for
/td> - to make sure that any img found is still within the opening
table cell.
The non-greedy matching (.*?) is not smart enough to do that for you.

Hope this all helps. :)

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Re: Find a table cell containing an image tag.

2008-08-28T06:27:44Z

Peter Boughton wrote:
> Can you elaborate on the context of what you're trying to do here?
>
> Because stuff like this is generally much much simpler with either
> XPath or jQuery.
Yeah, XPath would be nice but the reason I'm looking for these <img...>
tags, is because they are not XHTML compliant and I needed to fix that
so that I could get this HTML fragment into an acceptable XML mode.

With a great deal of trial and error I finally came up with this.
<td align="center">.*?(?=<img).*?</td>

Luckily in this HTML string, the image <td..> blocks are the only ones
with the align="center" property.

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Re: Find a table cell containing an image tag.

2008-08-27T15:43:24Z

> This is probably one of those look ahead|behind things that I still do
> not grasp about regex.
>
> I want to find <td...> tags in a string of HTML that contain an <img...>
> tag. But I need the entire <td..>...<img...>...</td> string to replace
> it. But I need to ignore all the other <td...>...</td> blocks that do
> not contain image tags.

Can you elaborate on the context of what you're trying to do here?

Because stuff like this is generally much much simpler with either
XPath or jQuery.

For example, here's how XPath matches any td containing an img:

//td[//img]

And here's how jQuery does it:

$j( 'td:has(img)' )

To do it with RegEx, you want something like this:

(?ims)<td[^>]*>(?:[^/]|/(?!td>))*<img[^>]+>.*?</td>

So yeah, if you really have a specific need to do it with RegEx, you
can probably use that, but I'd generally go for either of the other
two for any tag-based issue like this.

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Find a table cell containing an image tag.

2008-08-27T14:21:34Z

This is probably one of those look ahead|behind things that I still do
not grasp about regex.

I want to find <td...> tags in a string of HTML that contain an <img...>
tag. But I need the entire <td..>...<img...>...</td> string to replace
it. But I need to ignore all the other <td...>...</td> blocks that do
not contain image tags.

TIA
Ian

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