I want to filter anything between 2 tags but It skipped the first tag, I don't know what to do.

this is my raw string :

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This is the regex command I'm using.

(?<=<span><i><\/i>)(.*)(?=<\/span><div><\/div><\/div>)

I had to use regex to get this.

14ความคิดเห็น

But this is what I got.

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How can I solve the problem?

CodePudding user response：

I Just added a question mark in your regex: (.*) ==> (.*?)

(?<=<span><i><\/i>)(.*?)(?=<\/span><div><\/div><\/div>)

and it worked.

Demo

Explanation:

• .*? matches the previous token between zero and unlimited times, as few times as possible, expanding as needed (lazy)