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I have the following string in PHP:

<p> [#form id=1]</p>

What is the pattern for getting it? I tried this:

/\<p\>\s\[\#.+?.\]\s\<\/p\>/

But it does not work. Any idea?

To match that chunk, to match the id attribute, to match that specific pattern or arbitrary chars within `p` tags? — alex, Jun 08 '11 at 13:13
Ahem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454 — johnsyweb, Jun 08 '11 at 13:16
Is it possible to use a parser instead? You shouldn't really use regex to match html: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/04/parsing-beyond-regex.html — Francis Gilbert, Jun 08 '11 at 13:21

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 08 '11 at 13:13

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/\<p\>\s*\[\#.+?.\]\s*\<\/p\>/

You don't have space after ] , but regexp test for it

answered Jun 08 '11 at 13:13

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 08 '11 at 13:13

In the string there is nothing between ] and <

<p> [#form id=1]</p>
               ^^

But in your regex you've a \s (one whitespace character) between ] and <. Either drop the \s if you are sure there will be nothing between or change it to \s* if there can be any number of whitespace characters.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 08 '11 at 13:15

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You don't have a space after the ] sign,

Have a try with :

~<p> \[#.+\]</p>~

answered Jun 08 '11 at 13:15

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