Hi,

I have never done recursive regex before. What I am trying to do is if there is a string like this:

 
Soem other text
<span name="form1"><input type="text" name="" value=""><input type="checkbox" name="" value=""><span name="form2"><input type="radio"><input type="text"></span>somasjgjasha</span>teskjhajs<span>test text</span>a.jkahsk

 
Is it possible to return all the string inside <span name="form1"></span> without including the last "test text".

Since you have nested spans I guess I would try:

<span name="form1">.*?</span>.*?</span>

Which would match:

<span name="form1"><input type="text" name="" value=""><input type="checkbox" name="" value=""><span name="form2"><input type="radio"><input type="text"></span>somasjgjasha</span>

Is that what you were looking for?

Some questions that might let people help you more:

1) What language are you using?

2) is the 'name="form1" constant in the source text?

3) are you really looking for the text between matching '<span...>' and '</span>' tags