Using grep in BBEdit

Question

I'd like BBEdit to search some HTML and match every paragraph tag that contains a text string like "myText".

This sort of works but often matches beyond the closing ">" of the tag.

<p.*myText[^>]*>

As I understand it, this should match the opening angle bracket-"p", then any number of characters until it finds "myText", then any number of characters that are NOT ">" until it finds the closing ">". What's wrong?

Give us an example where this regex does not work. – QuestionC Jan 22 '16 at 17:13 — QuestionC, Jan 22 '16 at 17:13
Of course it will, use `
]*myText[^>]*>`
– Wiktor Stribiżew Jan 22 '16 at 17:17 — Wiktor Stribiżew, Jan 22 '16 at 17:17
Thanks, that did it. Better yet, I think I understand why! – user3238181 Jan 22 '16 at 17:52 — user3238181, Jan 22 '16 at 17:52

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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Use <p\s[^>]*myText[^>]*> – from comment by Wiktor Stribiżew.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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