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wrong regex tag matching

See original GitHub issue

Hello,

I encountered an issue by pasting text from a website The html text was :

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE> LogFile </TITLE>    
<SCRIPT id="LogScript" language="JavaScript1.2" src="/somepath"></SCRIPT>
 
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript1.2">
<!--
 [Some script]
//-->
</SCRIPT>
 
<STYLE type="text/css">
    /* reset */    
    html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
    h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
    a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
    del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
    small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
    b, u, i, center,
    dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
    fieldset, form, label, legend,
    table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td {
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
        outline: 0;
        font-size: 12px;
        /* vertical-align: baseline; */
        background: transparent;
    }
</STYLE><!--  includes/footer.ihtml  --> </HEAD><BODY onload="Loading();"><DIV id="Errors"><TABLE class="Error" id="Ob2197" border="2"><TBODY><TR class="Member" id="Mb$Program"><TD nowrap=""><TABLE class="Error" id="Ob2201" border="2"><TBODY><TR class="Member" id="Mb$Context"><TD class="Data" nowrap=""><!--StartFragment-->-ERR Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.
<BR><!--EndFragment--></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></BODY></HTML>

And the regex (with “head” as badTag) didn’t match correctly It match Head with the “thead” inside the <style> tag. So that the match was : <Head> [...] thead [...]</STYLE> instead of <HEAD></HEAD> I Hope the explanation are clear 😃 I suggest replacing tS=new RegExp('<'+bT[i]+'.*?'+bT[i]+'(.*?)>','gi'); with tS=new RegExp('<'+bT[i]+'\\b.*>.*</'+bT[i]+'>','gi'); It permit to match the exact word and the closing tag