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jmrah
jmrah

Reputation: 6241

Eclipse regex search not returning multiple matches

I have an xml file that contains, among other tags, a sequence of page tags that look like the following (the ellipses are just to show content that is not included):

<page1 ...>
   ...
</page>

<page2 ...>
   ...
</page>

<page3 ...>
   ...
</page>

This is my Eclipse IDE regex search expression:

(?s)<page.*</page>

The search results are returning one match; everything between <page1 and the very last </page> element. I'm trying to get it to return 3 matches, one for each element. How can I achieve this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 83

Answers (1)

Avinash Raj
Avinash Raj

Reputation: 174796

.* is greedy by default. That is, it matches all the characters as far as it can (longest possible match). By adding the quantifier ? next to the * forces the regex engine to do a non-greedy match (shortest possible match).

(?s)<page.*?<\/page>

(?s) Dotall modifier which makes the dot in your regex to match even line breaks.

DEMO

Upvotes: 1

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