Taking some content with regex from couple of html lines.

[intruder2600]

Hi,

There is no problem to take some content from page with regex from one line like this:

<li><a href="http://www.url.com">anchor</a></li>

It will go like this:
(?<=<li><a\ href="http://www\.url\.com">).*(?=</a></li>)

But what about situation, where I need to take content from couple of html lines:

<input type="text" value="search" id="searchInput" name="query" class="">
						<div id="searchSelector"> 
                                                <a href="http://www.url.com">anchor</a>
						<div id="searchSelBtn"></div>
					</div>

I need to take content located between:

<input type="text" value="search" id="searchInput" name="query" class="">
<div id="searchSelector">
<a href="http://www.url.com">

and:

</a>
<div id="searchSelBtn"></div>
</div>[/CODE]


This is just an example. I need to use more lines, because there is more of same code on website, so I need to take more html to get this one, which I need.

 

[rostonix]

If you cannot create one regex to scrape data that you need, you can perform several steps: scrape tiny blocks of codes that you can exclud with regex and store them in lists, then create a loop: take line , extract needed data from there, put to other list...

 

[lokiys]

<input\ type="text"[\w\W]*</div>

Use [\w\W] for that

 

[Maria Arbuzova]

<input\ type="text"[\w\W]*</div>

Use [\w\W] for that

In other words, check mark "Allow line breaks" in RegExp constructor (if you're using it)

 

[intruder2600]

Thanks alot for answers