Thanks everyone. As expected.. the actual data I got to look at is formatted differently than the sample data I'm looking at, and unless I can find where they store these objects in that other format, I'm going to have to go the route of properly parsing XML as people suggested. I was looking at a 'quick' method of just pulling out a mostly accurate listing of variables being used in each of these templates to spot check for consistency in naming and usage, and I may have overestimated my ability to 'quickly do this' considering the documents I'm actually working with are not a match for the samples I had, and not entirely understood at this point. Really do appreciate the help, and this still might come in handy when I can find the appropriately formatted documents, but if I want to build this report I'm probably spending a bit more time and parsing the XML after I can understand how it's built better.

In reply to Re: Trouble capturing multiple groupings in regex by reverendphil
in thread Trouble capturing multiple groupings in regex by reverendphil

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