Using regex to extract information from a file and need help

I have an html file that has a table of information and I'm trying to extract specific columns. The pattern is like this with alternating "TableDarkRow" and "TableLightRow":

'>817338284254611</A></td><td Class='TableDarkRow' NOWRAP> 01/14/2011</td>

And I'm trying to extract an array of number and date pairs :

817338284254611
01/14/2011

I tried and came up with this:

>([0-9开发者_运维问答])+</A>(.*)NOWRAP> ?([0-9]{2}\/[0-9]{2}\/[0-9]{4})

But the (.*) is allowing the entire document to be selected between the first and last occurrences.

Replace the .* with .*? for non-greedy matching.

Reference: Watch Out for The Greediness!

Try this one(haven't tested):

/[0-9\/ ]+/

You can replace .* with `[A-Za-z'<> \t]+'.