On Feb 8, 3:46 pm, Ralph Shnelvar <[email protected]> wrote: > Consider the string > > xyz<h1>x P0 y</h1><h1>x Q1 y</h1><h1>1 Placeholder2 2</h1>abc > > and the pattern > > <(h\d)>.*?Placeholder2.*?<\/\1> > > the pattern matches > <h1>x P0 y</h1><h1>x Q1 y</h1><h1>1 Placeholder2 2</h1> > > I want it to match > > <h1>1 Placeholder2 2</h1> > > How can I do this? That is, I want to find the nearest <h1> ... </h1> > surrounding Placeholder2. > Don't know if/how to bend ruby's regular expressions to do this but trying to parse html with regular expressions is doomed to fail eventually. Use something like nokogiri.
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