On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jan Jakubuv
This is so simple that I would not recommend anything other than regular expressions. Use the following pattern:
pat = "<tag>(.*)</tag>"
Don't use this; the * operator is greedy by default, meaning that will match stuff like "<tag>foo</tag>bar<tag>baz</tag>", and your data will end up being "foo</tag>bar<tag>baz". In other words, a greedy operator tries to consume as much of the string as it possibly can while still matching. If that regex module supports non-greedy operators, you want something like this: pat = "<tag>(.*?)</tag>" A "?" after a greedy operator makes it non-greedy, meaning it will try to match while consuming as little of the string as it can. If the posix regex module doesn't support this, the PCRE-based one should.