From: "Morris, Chris" <chris.morris@...>
Date: 2002-05-03T04:25:56+09:00
Subject: RE: regexp help: contains only one tag

> Well, /.*<.*>.*/ obviously matches your last test, so of 
> course that's 
> going to fail! =)

Yeah, I know ... I just couldn't get anything else to work...

> Try something like this instead:
> 
> re = /^[^<]*<[^<>]*>[^>]$/

Ah ... I was heading in this direction but forgot that in order to negate a
character set the ^ goes *inside* the brackets. Yours works, with one tweak:

  /^[^<]*<[^<>]*>[^>]$/
  /^[^<]*<[^<>]*>[^>]*$/  <= add * before $

Thanks!

Chris