How to use lazy quantifiers in look ahead?

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Serbring
Serbring 2024-9-8
编辑： Serbring 2024-9-8
Hi all,
I need to develop a regular expression for extracting a few numbers from HTML code. In particular, the numbers must be followed by the units (lbs) and not preceded by the string "front", "rear" and "drawbar". What make things complicated to me due to HTML tags. I am attaching a workspace where there are two strings containing the HTML codes of the pages where I need to extract those numbers. In particular, from the web1 variable I need to extract only the numbers 2840 and 4630; while, from web2 variable, I need to extract the numbers 13338 and 23149.
Probably, I have to use a lazy quantifier and I tried as regexp(HTMLtext,'(?<!([fF]ront | [rR]ear | [dD]rawbar).*?)\d+(?=\s*lbs)','match') with no success.
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Stephen23
Stephen23 2024-9-8
编辑：Stephen23 2024-9-8
"I have uploaded a couple of sample HTML codes in the starting message."
Please save the messages in a MAT file and upload that by clicking the paperclip button.
Your explanation is inconsistent with your example. You wrote "the numbers must be followed by the units (lbs) and not by the string "front", "rear" and "drawbar""
I am guessing you mean per line (or more strictly within the parent <tr></tr> tags). Why then are 1940, 4409, etc not bold? (they are definitely not "followed" by the words you specified).
Or did you mean preceded by rather than "followed by" ?
If you want a regular expression to workd reliably then you need to define its usecase very precisely.
Serbring
Serbring 2024-9-8
Thanks again. I have attached a .mat file with two strings and updated the initial message. You are on right, the numbers must not preceded by the terms "front", "rear" and "drawbar". Hopefully, now it is more clear.

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Stephen23
Stephen23 2024-9-8
编辑：Stephen23 2024-9-8
Ran in:
Regular expressions are the wrong tool for this. It might be possible with some effort, but personally I would just use the correct tools from the start:
S = load('test.mat');
w1 = S.web1;
w2 = S.web2;
t1 = htmlTree(w1);
t2 = htmlTree(w2);
td1 = findElement(t1,'td');
td2 = findElement(t2,'td');
tx1 = extractHTMLText(td1);
tx2 = extractHTMLText(td2);
ix1 = find(contains(tx1,'lbs'));
ix2 = find(contains(tx2,'lbs'));
Text 1:
hdr = tx1(ix1-1)
hdr = 4x1 string array
"Shipping:" "Max capacity:" "Max front axle:" "Max rear axle:"
val = tx1(ix1)
val = 4x1 string array
"2840 lbs..." "4630 lbs..." "1940 lbs..." "3527 lbs..."
Text 2:
hdr = tx2(ix2-1)
hdr = 3x1 string array
"" "Max capacity:" "Max Drawbar:"
val = tx2(ix2)
val = 3x1 string array
"13338 lbs..." "23149 lbs..." "4409 lbs..."
Then filter for what you want (rather than for what you do not want) using some basic text tools, e.g. CONTAINS.
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Serbring
Serbring 2024-9-8
编辑：Serbring 2024-9-8
Thank you. I did not know these new (to me) functions for parsing HTML codes and I am using regular expressions for such things for years. But this will change everything in some activities. You saved me. Thank you so much!!!

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