Need help with regular expression for random numbers

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Hi,

I am trying to ignore all the text after agent_ for the following text:

<label for="agent_ef26d602d79d453fab5rgf6ae3c1b301_LangPref_0"> English</label>

What am I doing wrong in the following:

<label[^>]*for="agent_[^>]*">

Please help!

What I have tried:

I am still new to this so I read through some tutorials and came up with this. But it did not work.

<label[^>]*for="agent_[^>]*">

Posted 19-Sep-19 9:19am

Updated 19-Sep-19 12:28pm

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-19T09:32:00

Try:

(?<=agent_).*?(?=_)

If you are going to play with regexes, then get a copy of Expresso[^] - it's free, and it examines and generates Regular expressions.

Posted 19-Sep-19 9:32am

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strawberry5 23-Sep-19 14:19pm

Hi @OriginalGriff, it solved the issue. I also downloaded Expresso and played around with it. Thank you so much for all the help!

OriginalGriff 23-Sep-19 14:21pm

You're welcome!