I think that in this particular instance, .*? ought to be fine, as embedded font tags are not legal (whereas in Ovid's example, embedded "s are fine).

In this case we're looking for stuff between <font ...> and </font> so .*? works a charm, although, if you had code that had: 

<font ..> text <font ..> more text </font> and some </font>

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you'd get 
text <font ..> more text

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out. This would be awkward, but a negated character class won't save us. If it is possible that you're getting insane html, then you have to expect bugginess on any regexp we come up with.

In reply to Re: Re: html tag matching confusion by jarich
in thread html tag matching confusion by moonlord

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