Detect specific tag with regex

Asked Jun 30 '17 at 09:00

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I have the following text:

<:Hello
 World
:>

Blah Blah Blah

<:Hello
 Foobar
:>

And i want to match every <:Hello ... :> Tag with a regular expression (In JavaScript). So what's supposed to be matched is World and Foobar but not blah blah blah.

I tried using /<:HELLO([\s]{1,})([\s\S]{1,})?:>/gi But it matches the whole text From the first <:Hello to the last :> How can i match each tag separately?

edited Jun 30 '17 at 09:31

asked Jun 30 '17 at 09:00

try dahan

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How can `PINEAPPLE` match `Hello`? – Tushar Jun 30 '17 at 09:04
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`[\s\S]{1,}` = `[\s\S]+` => too *greedy*. Solution: as usual, add `?` after `+`. And remove `?` after `)` as it makes the group optional. – Wiktor Stribiżew Jun 30 '17 at 09:07

Detect specific tag with regex

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