an extractor token with zero or more characters?

Hi

I thought the extractor tokens would be able to use a "zero or more characters" mask, but I can't be able to get it to work. I found that most of my errors are because if this.

Here is a simple example

I want a single pattern to match both texts:

text1
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</td>
<td valign="top">
<div style="float:left;"><a class="lbb" href="


text2
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</td>
<td class="odd" valign="top">
<div style="float:left;"><a class="lbb" href="


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they are both identical except for on the second line: class="odd".

So I thought I could put an extractor token in its place, like this

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</td>
<td ~@junk@~valign="top">
<div style="float:left;"><a class="lbb" href="

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However screen-scraper is only matching up the 2nd text example. So I though it must be because my extractor token needs to have a regex of 'zero or more' times - but I can't get it working.

Any tips would greatly be appreciated

cheers

Ben

Your extractor should work.

Your extractor should work. In the junk token, I would put the RegEx "[^<>]*" so it won't overflow, and then it should be fine.