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rengber on 05/16/07

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If there will be multiple sets of these tags in a scanned XML string, you need the '?' after the '*' to specify a non-greedy (lazy) match.

(?<=Message\>)[\S\s]*?(?=\<\/Message)

Posted By: Tomalak on September 4, 2007

Note that this only works with RegEx engines that support lookaround and non-greedy matching, which is not guaranteed.

If you do not have those options, you can capture the contents in parentheses: <Message>([^<]*)</Message>

In loops, this is faster than using lookaround and non-greedy matching, too.

Posted By: rengber on August 11, 2008

Good advice, thanks!

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