Regex Non-Greedy (Lazy)

c# regex html-table non-greedy
steventnorris picture steventnorris · Dec 12, 2012 · Viewed 24.9k times · Source

I'm attempting to non-greedily parse out TD tags. I'm starting with something like this:

<TD>stuff<TD align="right">More stuff<TD align="right>Other stuff<TD>things<TD>more things

I'm using the below as my regex:

Regex.Split(tempS, @"\<TD[.\s]*?\>");

The records return as below:

""
"stuff<TD align="right">More stuff<TD align="right>Other stuff"
"things"
"more things"

Why is it not splitting that first full result (the one starting with "stuff")? How can I adjust the regex to split on all instances of the TD tag with or without parameters?

Answer

Jason picture Jason · Dec 12, 2012

For non greedy match, try this <TD.*?>

Related questions

Regular expression to check if password is "8 characters including 1 uppercase letter, 1 special character, alphanumeric characters"

I want a regular expression to check that a password must be eight characters including one uppercase letter, one special character and alphanumeric characters. And here is my validation expression which is for eight characters including one uppercase letter, one …

Read More
Regex that accepts only numbers (0-9) and NO characters

I need a regex that will accept only digits from 0-9 and nothing else. No letters, no characters. I thought this would work: ^[0-9] or even \d+ but these are accepting the characters : ^,$,(,), etc I thought that both the regexes …

Read More
Regex for numbers only

I haven't used regular expressions at all, so I'm having difficulty troubleshooting. I want the regex to match only when the contained string is all numbers; but with the two examples below it is matching a string that contains all …

Read More