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<input value="how about this? />"/>

• unlinkr 7y ago
  That is a valid XHTML tag (if I remember correctly) and can be matched perfectly fine by a regex.
  • nurettin 7y ago
    Perhaps something like "([^"]*)" could skip what is inside the string literal. Unless there is "<input" in the string literal, then where you start parsing becomes very important.
    • unlinkr 7y ago
      That pattern would indeed match a quoted string. I don't see how it would matter if the quoted string contains something like "<input". It can contain anything except a quote character.
      • nurettin 7y ago
        It just makes the starting offset of the regex input important.
        • unlinkr 7y ago
          Sure. But that would be true for any parsing technique. No parser known to man would be able to produce a valid parse if you start it in the middle of a quoted string!