>The latter, ie
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><.*?>
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>matches a left bracket, the minimum chars needed followed by a right bracket
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>the dot matches any char but a newline
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>The former, ie
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><[^>]*>
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>
>matches a left bracket, any number of chars except the right bracket, followed by a right bracket
>It matches newline char between the left and right brackets, while the first does not
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>eg (using square brackets instead of angle brackets)
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>The first pattern will fail here, the second will work
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>[tag]
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>attr="PPP"
>
>
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>[/tag]
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Thanks, I have adjusted the method to take care of that.