RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags
- by Jeff
I need to match all of these opening tags:
<p>
<a href="foo">
But not these:
<br />
<hr class="foo" />
I came up with this and wanted to make sure I've got it right. I am only capturing the a-z.
<([a-z]+) *[^/]*?>
I believe it says:
Find a less-than, then
Find (and capture) a-z one or more times, then
Find zero or more spaces, then
Find any character zero or more times, greedy, except /, then
Find a greater-than
Do I have that right? And more importantly, what do you think? =)
EDIT:
Hmm, which answer to mark as correct? For the record, ALL the answers are appreciated. Many thanks!