Hi, I am trying to use POSIX regular expressions...I am quite new to C and it is hard to find examples of their usage.

I have written a simple program which reads in an XML file and should match against different XML/HTML constructs:

e.g '<(\\w+)>' , '</(\\w+)>' and so on.

It compiles and must only be missing something minor. At present it reports no matches found for any line in any html/xml document it is run against.

The file can be found at rose.clear.bash.sh

I'm sure someone who knows about these things would only need to look at it for 2 secs to tell me what is wrong. I greatly appreciate advice that anyone can give me, thanks,

Henry Widd

Hello henrywidd,

How do you know that this is POSIX and not PCRE?

Anyway, try these patterns out and see if they make a difference:

Opening tag:

Closing tag:

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