Need help getting first instance! :O

[Pizza Pro 11]

Hi guys, I need help with this. Been playing with it for hours, but I can't seem to complete it. I should have asked for help earlier.

 

For this block of text:

<div class="panel entry-content" id="tab-description" style="display: block; ">
<p>Text 1</p>
<p>Text 2</p>
<p>Text 3</p>
<h3>Headline</h3>
<p>Text 4</p>
<p>Text 5</p>
<p>Text 6</p>
<h3>Headline</h3>
<p>Text 5</p>
<p>Text 4</p>

I want to extract everything from <p> until the first <h3>. So in this case, it would be:

<p>Text 1</p>
<p>Text 2</p>
<p>Text 3</p>

I tried this:

 

<p>[\s\S]*?(?=<h3>)

 

 

 

But it selects all instances. I can't get any farther than that no matter what I do. Help!

 

[Kreatus (Ubot Ninja) 422]

Check this code below:

set(#data, "<div class=\"panel entry-content\" id=\"tab-description\" style=\"display: block; \">
<p>Text 1</p>
<p>Text 2</p>
<p>Text 3</p>
<h3>Headline</h3>
<p>Text 4</p>
<p>Text 5</p>
<p>Text 6</p>
<h3>Headline</h3>
<p>Text 5</p>
<p>Text 4</p>", "Global")
set(#data, $replace(#data, "
", ""), "Global")
set(#extract, $find regular expression(#data, "(?<=\">).*?(?=<h3>)"), "Global")
set(#extract, $replace(#extract, "</p>", "</p>
"), "Global")

You need to remove the new lines first before you can regex it.

[Pizza Pro 11]

Thanks a lot for the help, Kreatus. A few questions. What is the reason why I need to remove the new lines in UBot? Why is it that I can't use:

 

[\s\S]*?

 

Also, what if I don't have this line in front, because it changes with each page:

<div class="panel entry-content" id="tab-description" style="display: block; ">

If for some pages, I only had this:

 

 

<p>Text 1</p>
<p>Text 2</p>
<p>Text 3</p>
<h3>Headline</h3>
<p>Text 4</p>
<p>Text 5</p>
<p>Text 6</p>
<h3>Headline</h3>
<p>Text 5</p>
<p>Text 4</p>

 

  

Then, how would I extract 

 

<p>Text 1</p>
<p>Text 2</p>
<p>Text 3</p>

 

?

 

Thanks for the help.

[Kreatus (Ubot Ninja) 422]

That is going to be a tough one without seeing the whole code.

Can you send me the link where can i find the exact codes that you're trying to scrape?

[HelloInsomnia 1103]

Ubot and regex is a bit weird sometimes you have to do silly workarounds and this is one of those - but it does work.

set(#var, "<div class=\"panel entry-content\" id=\"tab-description\" style=\"display: block; \">
<p>Text 1</p>
<p>Text 2</p>
<p>Text 3</p>
<h3>Headline</h3>
<p>Text 4</p>
<p>Text 5</p>
<p>Text 6</p>
<h3>Headline</h3>
<p>Text 5</p>
<p>Text 4</p>", "Global")
clear list(%regex)
add list to list(%regex, $find regular expression(#var, "\\<p[^~]+?(?=\\<h3)"), "Delete", "Global")
set(#result, $list item(%regex, 0), "Global")
alert(#result)

Basically it will look for everything except for ~ after the <p and before <h3 this is because it's not easy to select multiple lines using regex and Ubot.