Regex something or nothing

Question

i have this regex:

/\<p(.+?|)>(.+?)<\/p\>/ims

which matches all the <p> inside an .html doc. However sometimes the <p> has attributes (like class, style, id etc.. ) and sometimes it doesn't.

The problem with this regex is if the <p> has no attributes it matches the closing tag of the.

here is an example:

Please see [How do you parse and process HTML/XML in PHP?](http://stackoverflow.com/q/3577641/476) [**Regex is not the way to parse HTML.**](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/476) — deceze, Oct 06 '15 at 07:17

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 06 '15 at 07:25

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What about

<p(.*?)>(.+?)<\/p\>

answered Oct 06 '15 at 07:25

Amarnasan

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