[erlang-questions] How can I break this string into a list of strings?

[Lloyd R. Prentice]

Many thanks all for your excellent fodder for thought.

I would have thought that my question was trivial and the solution a well-worn path. But the issues are deeper than I imagined.

All the best in this new year,

Lloyd

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> On Dec 25, 2016, at 5:43 PM, Pierre Fenoll <pierrefenoll@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
> Hey Éric
> 
> Well it's not clear whether tags are nested in the OP.
> So when my assumption applies, I would just read the list created 3 elements at a time, with strings of whitespace removed. 
> 
> If it doesn't, regexps are known to not be able to parse stack based grammars. 
> 
>> On 25 Dec 2016, at 21:41, Éric Pailleau <eric.pailleau@REDACTED> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Pierre,
>> 
>> No this way you are loosing html tags.
>> Lloyd wants to keep html tags, including linefeeds inside html tags.
>> 
>> I tested with re:split(Html, "(<[^>]+>[^<]*<[^>]+>)",[{return, list}]) .  Works. 
>> Lloyd can then loop on result and keep only non empty string after trim on elements. 
>> Regards