Posted by Robin Vickery on 01/14/05 12:13

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:06:32 -0500, Jason Morehouse <jm@vendorama.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I normally can take a bit of regex fun, but not this time.
>
> Simple enough, in theory... I need to match (count) all of the bold tags
> in a string, including ones with embedded styles (or whatever else can
> go in there). <b> and <b style="color:red">. My attempts keep matching
> <br> as well.

Put in a \b to match a wordbreak after the 'b'. Something like this maybe:

/<b\b[^>]*>/i
..
-robin

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