Ignore class attribute when extracting content from HTML body tag with a regex

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I am trying to get what's inside a body tag using regex, but it doesn't work in some cases.

For example if a web page has:

<body>text</body>

it will work, but it won't work if the body tag has a class or something defined, like

<body class="something">text</body>

I need the regex to work on both cases.

[`xpath_match_all('//body', $html);`](https://gist.github.com/1358174) — Gordon, Feb 14 '12 at 19:03
-1 This is a **Bad Idea™** Why? See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags — Chris Wesseling, Feb 15 '12 at 09:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 14 '12 at 18:52

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Use [^>]*> after 'body' word:

<body[^>]*>.*</body>

edited Feb 14 '12 at 18:52

answered Feb 14 '12 at 18:50

grodzik

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You forgot the \ sign before /. `]*>.*<\/body>`. Thank you. – Special K. Feb 14 '12 at 19:01
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