You're right, that was the original regex that wasn't matching properly when CDATA contained "]".
My new regex is:
\A[ \n\r\t]*<!\[CDATA\[(.*)\]\]>
This matches on <![CDATA[test [0 [test1 ] test2 ]runPackage:0]]></log></xmlreport>
and won't match on a multiline string, like:
<![CDATA[ \n test [0 [test1 ] test2 ]runPackage:0]]></log>\n</xmlreport>
Is the (.*) not the correct pattern to use if I want all the contents in between "[CDATA[" and "]]" , even if it's multiple lines?
Thanks for your help.
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To: Mihai Matei <mihaimilk@???>
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Mihai Matei wrote:
> RegularExpr re("\\A[ \n\r\t]*<!\\[CDATA\\[([^\\]]+)\\]\\]>", RE_MULTILINES);
I presume that the actual regex that you want to pass to PCRE is
\A[ \n\r\t]*<!\[CDATA\[([^\]]+)\]\]>
> this regex fails to match on the string:
> <![CDATA[test 0 test1 \ntest2 [runPackage]:0]]></log>\n</xmlreport>
Well, yes, it will. After [CDATA[ your pattern expects a sequence of
not-] followed by ]] and your test string doesn't have that. After a
sequence of not-] your test string has ]:0]]
> but it matches on:
>
> <![CDATA[test 0 test1 test2 [runPackage]:0]]></log></xmlreport> ###(no newlines)
It doesn't match for me when I test with pcretest.
> <![CDATA[test 0 test1 \ntest2 runPackage:0]]></log>\n</xmlreport> ###(no square brackets inside CDATA)
That one does match for me.
Philip
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Mihai Matei wrote:
> Is the (.*) not the correct pattern to use if I want all the contents
> in between "[CDATA[" and "]]" , even if it's multiple lines?
. does not match newline unless you set the PCRE_DOTALL option (don't
know what it's called in your application). Another way of matching any
character including newlines is to use something like [\s\S].
Philip
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