> The pattern of the string will be something like the following:

> 60003 Lichen<br />Stripe<br />

> What I need to do is exclude everything after the product name (in
> this case, 'Lichen').  The resulting string should look like:

> 60003 Lichen

> Thank you for your help!

> Secondly, lets define approach: you mean the necessary info ends right
> in front of the first "</br>", right?

> in this case the regex will be
> ^.*?(?=\<\/br\>)

> and, if applied to my reply text,  three matching results will be:

> "First you probably mean "
> "60003 Lichen"
> "Secondly, lets define approach: you mean the necessary info ends
> right in front of the first ""

> A bit of explanation:
> ^ checks if we are at the start of a line but grabs nothing (it is an anchor)
> .*? is a lazy dot, i.e. it grabs anything as few times as possible, so
> that the next regex construct finds its match
> and finally (?=\<\/br\>) again grabs nothing but checks whether what
> we have to the right is "</br>"
> Putting a backslash in front of special; symbols is a precaution in
> order that they are not treated as special symbols of programming
> language/environment

> --
> Regards,
> Eugeny Sattler

> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Rus Miller <lancemonot...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > The pattern of the string will be something like the following:

> > 60003 Lichen<br />Stripe<br />

> > What I need to do is exclude everything after the product name (in
> > this case, 'Lichen').  The resulting string should look like:

> > 60003 Lichen

> > Thank you for your help!