Title: Match Text Between HTML Tags
Slug: match_text_between_html_tags
Summary: Match Text Between HTML Tags
Date: 2016-05-01 12:00
Category: Regex
Tags: Basics
Authors: Chris Albon

Based on: Regular Expressions Cookbook

Preliminaries



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# Load regex package
import re

Create some text



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# Create a variable containing a text string
text = '<p>The quick brown fox.</p><p>The lazy brown bear.</p>'

Apply regex



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# Find any text between '<p>' and '</p>'
re.findall(r'<p>(.*?)</p>', text)









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['The quick brown fox.', 'The lazy brown bear.']