> Hi I'm trying to write a regexp that adds a <wbr> word break tag to
> all words in a html string that are longer than 10 characters. The
> problem is the regexp match needs to ignore all strings inside < and >
> as they are obviously part of the code itself.
> Here's what I have so far but it doesn't seem to match correctly:

> (?<!<)(\S{10,200})(?!>)

> By the way, I'm using this site a lot lately which is very cool for
> regex beginners:
> http://gskinner.com/RegExr/

> Thanks a lot,
> Ciarán

> #free spacing regex
> </[a-z][0-9]?>   #closing html tag, used just as a milestone
> (.(?<!\<))+      #any char but not the one that has "<" to
>                  #the left of it, repeated many times, thus
>                  #making a loooong word
> <[a-z][0-9]?>    # opening html tag, used just as a milestone

> this one catches this snippet from your example

> </h2>yeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
> which destroys <i>

> Note: i deleted line breaks from your text before applying my regex

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> Regards, Eugeny

> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Ciaran <cronok...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> > Hi I'm trying to write a regexp that adds a <wbr> word break tag to
> > all words in a html string that are longer than 10 characters. The
> > problem is the regexp match needs to ignore all strings inside < and >
> > as they are obviously part of the code itself.
> > Here's what I have so far but it doesn't seem to match correctly:

> > (?<!<)(\S{10,200})(?!>)

> > By the way, I'm using this site a lot lately which is very cool for
> > regex beginners:
> >http://gskinner.com/RegExr/

> > Thanks a lot,
> > Ciarán

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> best regards,          Eugeny