Regular expressions

cobra

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I'm doning some amazon scraping, but the data I'm getting is not quite as clean as I wish. So I'd like to ask, if someone is skilled in using regular expressions. Basiclly I would like to extract the selected string (.*) EXCEPT the content of these html tags: <script>.*</script> and <div>.*</div>. I went through basic tutorials, but still haven't been able to come up with a regex that works.

 

mazgalici

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That's so complicated....

 

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sionsmith

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paste me or pm me the raw html and what you want the result to be and i'll do it.

 

heavyweight

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You're better off learning regular expressions than requesting a specific regex.
They may seem difficult at first but you need to find the right tutorial.
Open several tutorials, start reading and you will get the hang of it.

 

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remotedb

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I'd just do it in Javascript, that's not really what Regex is for. Regex is for formatting and validation, not stripping.

 

risefromdeath

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in php

PHP:

preg_match("/<script>(.*?)<\/script>/ims",$html,$match,$flag);

Hope that helps
Thanks

 

SEO20

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http://regexlib.com/ is a great starting point and a source for the most common used regex.