Regex: Select all non-ASCII characters html tags

[Robin Cruise]

hello. I have this 4 lines. I want to make a regex as to find only those html tags that contain non-ASCII characters. (ignoring the <em></em> tags)

Line 1
<p class="OANA"><em>评论家Drive有一些重要的东西来说，Home Edition关于总是分享胜利的人才，转向他们的起源：</em></p>
Line 2
<p class="OANA"><em>评论家Drive有一些重要的东西来说，<em>Home Edition关于总是分享胜利的</em>人才，转向他们的起源：</em></p>
Line 3
<p class="OANA"><em>评论家有一些重要的东西来说，关于总是分享胜利的人才，转向他们的起源：</em></p>
Line 4
<p class="OANA"><em>What is it called when you love your car?</em></p>

The output should be Line 1, Line 2 and Line 4 (so don’t have to match Line 3)

My regex is not good, find’s all of them.

Find: <p class="OANA">+(?!\w+<em>).*(\w+[\x00-\x7F]).*</p>

[Robin Cruise]

also, will be a nice idea to use another regex as to find only the Line 4.

[guy038]

Hello, @robin-cruise,

I don’t really understand what you want !

First, to match any Chinese character, you must use the range described by the [\x{4E00}-\x{9FFF} character class. Refer here

However, your text, between the <em> and </em> tags, also contains some fullwith punctuation characters as ， and ：

Refer here

So, If I mark all characters with the regex [\x{4E00}-\x{9FFF}\x{FF00}-\x{FFEF}], in your sample, it matches 102 characters and, between the outer <em> and </em> tags :

• The Line 1 contains two ASCII strings ( Drive and Home Edition ) and three ranges of non-ASCII characters

• The Line 2 contains two ASCII strings ( Drive and Home Edition ) and four ranges of non-ASCII characters

• The Line 3 contains one range of non-ASCII characters, only, without any ASCII char

• The Line 4 contains one range of ASCII characters, only ( What is it called when you love your car? )

Now, the question is : what you want to do ?

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On the other hand, your last question is :

also, will be a nice idea to use another regex as to find only the Line 4.

I suppose that the following regex (?<=<p class="OANA"><em>)[\x00-\x7F]+?(?=</em>) should work and matches the shortest range of ASCII characters, after the string <p class="OANA"><em> till the string </em> not included !

Best Regards,

guy038

[Robin Cruise]

@guy038 said in Regex: Select all non-ASCII characters html tags:

(?<=<p class=“OANA”><em>)[\x00-\x7F]+?(?=</em>)

thanks a lot @guy038