I'm actually doing this using

PHP

 's preg_match_all, but I think a

regex

  is a

regex

  is a

regex

  so I posted it here.

I'm trying to pull some info off a page. There are several instances of this info spread across the page, and some of them are numbers. I'm not interested in the numbers.

So, here's what I would do if I were interested in the numbers:

/<tag>(.+?)</tag>/

Which would pull all the information between <tag></tag> on the page. However, I want to remove the ones that are a number so I naively tried this:

/<tag>[^0-9]</tag>/

What am I missing?

Hey C - would you please post an example of what you WOULD like to grab as well as what you wouldn't? That'd be just a bit easier to see.

Thanks!
/p

Hi cdc,

your example would match: <tag>a</tag>
but not: <tag>ab</tag>

So I would change the

regex

  to:

/<tag>[^0-9]+?</tag>/

Thanks, dirk, works like a charm.

Just for completeness, here's an example of something I'd like it to match:

<tag>hello</tag>

Here's an example of what I don't want to match:

<tag>1</tag>

So I want to grab everything in the "tag" tag that's NOT a number.

Sheesh - really was that simple eh?
Sorry C - thought it'd be more complex if you posted some demos

/p

D is the same as [^0-9]
d is the same as [0-9]

W is the same as [^a-zA-Z0-9]
w is the same as [a-zA-Z0-9]

i thought there was one for [a-zA-Z], but i don't remember ever using it  :