Help with regex find and code folding

[jvo33]

I have a 2 part question (warning -- I am new to Sublime and rusty on my regex syntax):

1) Is there a way to construct a search that selects only the text between an opening and closing tag? For example, I can use this regular expression:

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<section[^>]*?>(.*|\n*)*?(</section>)

to select everything including the tags, but I want to end up with only the text (which will be other sets of tags) between the opening <section> and closing </section> highlighted. The goal is to then fold the highlighted text.

2) It seems like I should be able to do this more efficiently using RegReplace package, but my head is spinning trying to understand the terminology and which type of definition and parameters I would need to use to set this up. If anyone is willing to help me through that, or at least provide rough steps, I'd be very appreciative.

--JV

Bonus question: Can anyone explain why

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<section[^>]*?>[.\n]*?(</section>)

doesn't work instead of my regex above, which seems less than elegant.

[iamntz]

Add this into your key config file:

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{ "keys": ["ctrl+alt+enter"], "command": "expand_selection", "args": {"to": "tag"} }

Then press ctrl+shift+[ or to ctrl+shift+] to fold or unfold selection.

[jvo33]

Thank you, iamntz. The expand selection to tag command gets very close to my goal. The part that's a little awkward is that each time I do a find for the next <section> tag, the tag itself becomes selected and the expand select to tag command only operates on the search term text ("<section") until I hit an arrow key to remove the selection/highlight.

[capnhud]

For finding text between tags this regex does trick:

</?\w+((\s+\w+(\s*=\s*(?:".*?"|'.*?'|[^'">\s]+))?)+\s*|\s*)/?>

[adzenith]

http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454