regex it's ignore the first tag

Question

I want to filter anything between 2 tags but It skipped the first tag, I don't know what to do.

this is my raw string :

<!--ENTEXPERTCOMMENT--><divid="comments-counts"><divclass="display-post-wrapperpageno-titlepageno-title-counter"id="comment-counter"><spanclass="title"><iclass="icon-header-badge3chat"></i>14ความคิดเห็น</span><divclass="pageno-title-line"></div></div></div><divid="comments-jsrender"><divclass="display-post-status-leftside"><spanclass="display-post-number"id="comment12-1">ความคิดเห็นที่12-1</span><divclass="display-post-edit"><divclass="display-post-edit-wrapper"><ahref="javascript:void(0);"data-06"href="javascript:void(0);"><imgclass=""src="/images/emotions/icon-emotion-wow.gif"><spanclass="label">ทึ่ง</span></a><spanclass="emotion-choice-score">0</span></div><divclass="emotion-vote-usersmall-txt-fixed"style="display:none;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><!--barloadmoreส่วนล่าง--><!--default--><!--สำหรับแทรกฟอร์ม--><divclass="comment-80761053form"></div></div><divclass="l-end"id="comments-ed-2"></div><divclass="display-post-wrapperpageno-titlepageno-title-counter"data-refzcomment="P0"><spanclass="title"><iclass="icon-header-badge3comment"></i>แสดงความคิดเห็น</span><divclass="pageno-title-line"></div></div><scriptlanguage="Javascript"src="/ads.php?position=cafe:skin:supachalasai"></script>

This is the regex command I'm using.

(?<=<spanclass="title"><iclass="icon-header-badge3chat"><\/i>)(.*)(?=<\/span><divclass="pageno-title-line"><\/div><\/div>)

I had to use regex to get this.

14ความคิดเห็น

But this is what I got.

14ความคิดเห็น</span><divclass="pageno-title-line"></div></div></div><divid="comments-jsrender"><divclass="display-post-status-leftside"><spanclass="display-post-number"id="comment12-1">ความคิดเห็นที่12-1</span><divclass="display-post-edit"><divclass="display-post-edit-wrapper"><ahref="javascript:void(0);"data-06"href="javascript:void(0);"><imgclass=""src="/images/emotions/icon-emotion-wow.gif"><spanclass="label">ทึ่ง</span></a><spanclass="emotion-choice-score">0</span></div><divclass="emotion-vote-usersmall-txt-fixed"style="display:none;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><!--barloadmoreส่วนล่าง--><!--default--><!--สำหรับแทรกฟอร์ม--><divclass="comment-80761053form"></div></div><divclass="l-end"id="comments-ed-2"></div><divclass="display-post-wrapperpageno-titlepageno-title-counter"data-refzcomment="P0"><spanclass="title"><iclass="icon-header-badge3comment"></i>แสดงความคิดเห็น

How can I solve the problem?

That is some bad HTML indeed then: `divclass` seems to be incorrect. Or a bad copy-paste. — 9769953, Mar 30 '22 at 05:06
Also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454 of course. — 9769953, Mar 30 '22 at 05:06
If you scraped it, give yourself a break - scrape it better and [parse it properly](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags) — Caius Jard, Mar 30 '22 at 05:10

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 30 '22 at 05:52

I Just added a question mark in your regex: (.*) ==> (.*?)

(?<=<spanclass="title"><iclass="icon-header-badge3chat"><\/i>)(.*?)(?=<\/span><divclass="pageno-title-line"><\/div><\/div>)

and it worked.

Demo

Explanation:

.*? matches the previous token between zero and unlimited times, as few times as possible, expanding as needed (lazy)

regex it's ignore the first tag

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