Need to match exact string with regular expression

Question

I'm trying to find a regular expression to match a certain portion of this html code:

        <TR class="">
                <TD align=left>WebContainer : 312</TD>
                <TD align=left>hung</TD>
                <TD align=left>2014-06-13</TD>
                <TD align=right>08:20:14</TD>
                <TD align=right>-</TD>
                <TD align=right>01:57:46</TD>
        </TR>

And I need to match the exact bold string starting with the hyphen and ending at the </TD> tag.

Also, The 24hr clock in the bottom line needs 01 for the hour portion. I can figure out the clock portion as \d{1}1:\d{2}:\d{2} but as for grabbing the whole string including the newline I'm stuck. Please help?

You may find this Q&A informative (although it's not an exact duplicate so I'm not closing). http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags — Tim B, Jun 13 '14 at 15:41

Patrick Ferreira · Answer 1 · 2014-06-13T15:57:08.697

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This one select all text between wildcards in the \2 buffer

(\*\*)([^\1]+)\1

For a better comprehension, you can see this RE in regexper ;-)

You can use this one to extract all from hyphen to the next </TD> you'll find.

-(</TD>)([^\1]+)\1

edited Jun 13 '14 at 15:57

answered Jun 13 '14 at 15:47

Patrick Ferreira

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 13 '14 at 16:49

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For the part of the question asking how to match the newline, try

-</TD>\n.*<TD

edited Jun 13 '14 at 16:49

Veedrac

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answered Jun 13 '14 at 15:51

vcosk

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 13 '14 at 19:50

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Just match the bold text:

/(?!(.*<\/TD){3})-<\/T.*\/TD>/s

Ensure hour is 01:

/(?!(.*<\/TD){3})-<\/T.*01[0-9:]{6}<\/TD>/s

Where the s modifier is dot matches newline

Tested here: http://regex101.com/r/sZ6qU5

answered Jun 13 '14 at 19:50

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Need to match exact string with regular expression

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