How to build a regex to capture the contents between DIV?

Question

This is my test input string

Test code <div>Testing here. Div contents</div> Blah Blah <div>Second div</div>Blah

I need to capture the contents between . Please help me understand how to build the regex to accomplish this with some explanation?

Answer 1

I think this will work.

(?<=<div>).*?(?=<\/div>)

demo - https://regex101.com/r/vnfpRV/1

• CodeForGood: Yes, this is finding the match. Could you please write a few lines on how you built this regex. Thanks Kaushik.
• CodeForGood: Just want to know what does '?<=' do?
• Kaushik C: @CodeForGood I provided a demo link, where you can see the explanation for this regex at right side.
• Kaushik C: ?<= is for positive look behind. refer this link for understand what is "Positive and Negative Lookbehind ". regular-expressions.info/lookaround.html