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Even assuming well-formed input (if it's not, this style of parsing may fail or, worse, incorrectly succeed) you have two problems shown by this sample input: 1) textmore text. 2) ab. Of course, your answer is really no better than mine, but I would be hesitant to call it easily done. Regex is simply the wrong tool for this job, even when it works occasionally.

Roger Pate
– Roger Pate

2009-06-30 05:33:56 +00:00
Commented Jun 30, 2009 at 5:33
Ok. I am going to continue searching for a very "safe" and "good" method to process such "tag soup", but for now, as R. Pate's regex is working, I'm going to continue using it until i find a better solution. Thanks so much everybody!!!

Maxim Zaslavsky
– Maxim Zaslavsky

2009-06-30 17:10:45 +00:00
Commented Jun 30, 2009 at 17:10

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