Re: regex help

Jason Morehouse wrote: > Simple enough, in theory... I need to match (count) all of the bold tags > in a string, including ones with embedded styles (or whatever else can > go in there). <b> and <b style="color:red">. My attempts keep matching > <br> as well. I think something not unlike: '/<b( .*>|>)/' The point being that you either have JUST '>' OR you have a SPACE and whatever and '>' I leave the capitalization and 'greedy' settings up to you. The previous solution using '<b[^r]' will work only until the goofball browser wars give us some other <bX> tag where X is a single character in the alphabet. There's a pretty cool Windows/Linux product a colleague swears by that's called RegexCoach (?) which will not only let you try out expressions/values and tell you which ones pass/fail, but you can highlight sub-sections of the expression/values and see what it matches piece by piece. It's donationware -- try it out and donate the $20 (oooh, hurt me) if you like it. http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/ -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm