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I want to capture all text & blocks of text between <% and %>.
For example:
<html>
<head>
<title>Title Here</title>
</head>
<body>
<% include("/path/to/include") %>
<h1>Test Template</h1>
<p>Variable: <% print(second_var) %></p>
<%
variable = value;
foreach(params here)
{
code here
}
%>
<p><a href="/" title="Home">Home</a></p>
</body>
</html>
I have tried \<\%(.*)\%\> but that will capture everything including <h1>Test Template</h1> block as well.
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Multiline option, or the m inline option, enables the regular expression engine to handle an input string that consists of multiple lines. It changes the interpretation of the ^ and $ language elements so that they match the beginning and end of a line, instead of the beginning and end of the input string.
In regex, the uppercase metacharacter is always the inverse of the lowercase counterpart. \d (digit) matches any single digit (same as [0-9] ). The uppercase counterpart \D (non-digit) matches any single character that is not a digit (same as [^0-9] ).
Capturing groups are a way to treat multiple characters as a single unit. They are created by placing the characters to be grouped inside a set of parentheses. For example, the regular expression (dog) creates a single group containing the letters "d" "o" and "g" .
Parentheses group the regex between them. They capture the text matched by the regex inside them into a numbered group that can be reused with a numbered backreference. They allow you to apply regex operators to the entire grouped regex. (abc){3} matches abcabcabc.
Which regex engine are you using?
<%(.*?)%>
should work with the "dot matches newline" option enabled. If you don't know how to set that, try
<%([\s\S]*?)%>
or
(?s)<%(.*?)%>
No need to escape <, %, or > by the way.
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\<\%(.*?)\%\>. You need to use .*? to get non-greedy pattern matching.
EDIT To solve the multiline problem, you can't use the . wildcard, as it matches everything except newline. This option differs depending on your regular expressions engine. So, I can tell you what to do if you tell me your regex engine.
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