Find Telephone

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gets a postgis tablename from a mapfile with the given layer name, may not work depending on your mapfile layout

matching words between square brachets tags include newline or carriage return

Exclude part of a string in an include string.

Matches any IPv4 address

]+)\s()\s(?:\/>|>(.)) - (with global) finds all tags in scope 1st group is tagname 2nd group is attributes 3rd group (if it exists) is value of the tag ...

This is a sample text for use at my "Working With Data" workshop session on regular expressions.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/171499/1519058