I’ve been beating my head against the wall to get this pattern right, but anything I do, I end up selecting my whole string. What I want to do is to select the first instance of a p tag, that wraps an img tag, and its closing tag. Here’s a dummy example:
<p><img src="http://www.churchplanting.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/dummy.jpg" alt="image"></p><p>Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit...</p><p>Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..."</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Testing22222.jpg" alt="image"></p>
Here are the facts:
-The string is minified and adding line breaks isn’t an option for my case
-I’m updating a database so I can’t use that link in the pattern
-The p tag will always start the strings
-Here’s what I got so far:
^<p><img src="https?:\/\/\S.+
I imagine that’s a good start already, but I haven’t found anything to stop matching after the first </p>
. Anyone have a tip I can use?
Edit: Here’s the same string using text-wrap for better visibility:
<p><img src="http://www.churchplanting.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/dummy.jpg" alt="image"></p>
<p>Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit...</p>
<p>Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..."</p>
<p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Testing22222.jpg" alt="image"></p>