My search skilz are teh sux0r

[syrupcore]

<span>Content here</span>
<span>This completely different content</span>

what do I type in the search dialog to find both of these lines?

I've tried a bunch of things to no avail. help?

Thanks,
Will

[MikeyB]

Hi Will,

This regular expression appears to work:
<span>[^>]+</span>

I did try a slightly simpler one at first, but it was finding from the first <span> to the very last </span> in the file, but it did work fine in EditPlus.

I've always found the regular expression search in WeBuilder to be limited in what it can do.

Mike

[syrupcore]

Hey, thank you.

I just tried it and it doesn't seem to work. I made a test doc with this in it:

Code: Select all

<span>foo</span>
<span>var</span>
<span>variant</span>
<span>bar</span>

and searched with <span>[^>]+</span> with reg ex turned on. says 'search string not found'. I had it on entire scope.

Have I missed something?

Thanks,
will

[MikeyB]

That's odd, just copied & pasted your little snippet into WeBulder, copied the search regex from your post, and it works:



I had entite scope on, just noticed it switches back to from cursor after the 1st find.
Clicking Find Next does indeed find the next <span>...</span>