Re^2: Regular Expression

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Re^3: Regular Expression by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 28, 2005 at 19:35 UTC
That'll fail for `<body onload="if (a > b) { ... }">`. It can also fail if `<body>` is found in comments.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Regular Expression by Transient (Hermit) on Jun 28, 2005 at 19:42 UTC
See Re: Regular Expression (the bottom regexp) - although to be fair, it should probably check for single quotes, too...	[reply]
Re^3: Regular Expression by CountZero (Bishop) on Jun 28, 2005 at 19:29 UTC
And how do you find the closing tag? CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply]
Re^4: Regular Expression by Transient (Hermit) on Jun 28, 2005 at 19:36 UTC
Even though I believe this is a rhetorical question... `m!</body>!` [download] Yes.. with multiple closing body tags, it will be icky - yes, enclosed in comments it will be double super secret fudgy icky. But the OP wants a regexp to find the tag (and actually didn't even ask about the closing tag!), so like Burger King, "Have it Your Way".	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Regular Expression by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 28, 2005 at 19:38 UTC
Mulitple closing body elements are illegal, so multiple closing body tags may not a problem. That problem is `</body>` could appear in a comment or in quotes.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Regular Expression by CountZero (Bishop) on Jun 28, 2005 at 19:54 UTC
Nope, not rhetorical, just a trap! This is valid XHTML: `<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w +3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-ty +pe" /> <title>test</title> </head> <body/> </html>` [download] No `</body>` tag, so a naive regex breaks again. Of course you are right, the OP only wanted to match the `<body>` tag not the body-element. CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: Regular Expression by Transient (Hermit) on Jun 28, 2005 at 19:58 UTC
Re^7: Regular Expression by CountZero (Bishop) on Jun 28, 2005 at 20:20 UTC
Re^4: Regular Expression by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 28, 2005 at 19:36 UTC
The OP didn't ask for that. He asked to match the opening tag, no matter what it had for attributes.	[reply]