>>I will not pretend I understand, but it does indeed work (for that test, at least).
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>Well, regex always tries to find the longest match - that is why it went up to the second func
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>I added a ? in the data group
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>read about the quantifiers *?, +? and ?? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/regular-expression-language-quick-reference#quantifiers

Thanks again and for the reference. I will also need to test more cases, because what if I have some nested XML (e.g sample of

<func>Some<func>Another</func>..</func>

This is just a made up example, I need to look more into all current tests. I'll run all of them now just to see if there may be some fallout of that pattern change.