Jochem
Thank you for your continued assistance.
^--- remove the caret as you dont want to only match when the line
starts with <li> (the <li> can be anywhere on the line)
Ah, I get it now. I was confused about the meaning of the caret.
I'll assume you also have the mb extension setup.
Yes, I do.
This regular expression is tricky stuff, and its behaviour is not what
I'd expect.
After much experimentation, I discovered that I needed to take the last
"s" out of my syntax. This was the "s" that states that the search could
span across line breaks.
I assumed that the behaviour would be to start at one instance of <li>
and continue until the first instance of <br> and extract that as a
variable. And then start again at the next instance of <li> and so on.
But instead it seems to be starting from the extreme outside and work
it's way inwards from both ends, thus trapping all text between the very
first <li> in the source string, and the very last <br> in the source.
So if the "s" option is on to span across lines, then it gets only one
match for the whole HTML document, containing everything between the
very first <li> and the very last <br>. If I take off the "s" option,
then it only looks at <li> and <br> tags within each line, thus
returning small, discreet matches.
I personally don't think this is very rational behaviour, so either I'm
doing something wrong still, or perhaps it's me who isn't very rational.
Either is likely.
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Dave M G
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