# Regular expression \[HTML\]

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/regular-expression-html/270717>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [September 12, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/regular-expression-html/270717 "2008-09-12T17:18:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![imagined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a87d85/32.png) [@imagined](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/imagined)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/regular-expression-html/270717/1 "2008-09-12T17:18:19Z")

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How can I create a ereg regular expression to match exactly the following:

````auto

i tried ^
```html
$ but it doesnt seem to work.
````