[Javascript] regexp help: matching selectors

[shawn.milo at gmail.com (Shawn Milo)]

No, not sure why this doesn't work. I wonder if the * only wants to
find zero or more of a specific character, as in [a-z] or [0-9].

Would this be of any use to you? (untested)

/^\s*html\s*[^#]*([a-zA-Z0-9_-])?(#[a-zA-Z0-9_-])?\s*$/

If you had a match on the middle section, you could grab that with a
backreference and do a split to get the class names.

Shawn



On 6/29/05, Paul Novitski <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm developing regular expressions that will match CSS-style selectors.
> 
> Here's my first stumbler:
> 
>         /html( \w+)* div/
> 
> (Intended to mean: the word "html" followed by zero-or-many instances of [a
> space followed by one-or-many word characters] followed by a space and then
> the word "div")
> 
> I want this to match with:
> 
>         html div
>         html body div
>         html body div#logo
> 
> etc.  Can you explain to me why it's not working?
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul
> 
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