Using a regular expression to match a div block having a specific ID

Question

I\'m trying to match a block of div that have a particular id.. Here\'s my regex code:

]*\\s*id\\s*=\\s*[\"|\']content[\"|\']\\s*>[^/div]         


        

Answer 1

.*?

is what you need - as long as you don't have nested divs. If you do have them, give up and use an actual XML parser.

Switch on the "dotall" option though (check http://www.regular-expressions.info/dot.html and find out how to do that with your regex flavour).

Minor details up to you. :-)