Given the following HTML: 

<div id="iwant">
  <div id="insideiwant">
  </div>
</div>

<div id="nowant">
</div>

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I want to get the contents of the first outter div block (with id "iwant").

However there may be more div blocks after the iwant block. Thus I can't use greedy regex because it will pick up all the div blocks, not just the section i want.

The id tags are there just for the sake of identification. In a real world example, there would be no way to differentiate div blocks besides the heirarchy of the html.

I figure maybe something with lookaheads might do it but I'm just barely into learning how to use lookaheads and the like.

Thanks.

-MN

In reply to Parsing nested HTML with just regex by Anonymous Monk

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