[BKh]

In a string like this:

<p class="sgc-9"><a id="v45">The Seven Factors of the Awakened mind—</a><a href="../Text/mainnotes.xhtml#p37-1" id="n151">¹⁵¹</a><br />

I want to be able to search for this part:

<a id="v45">The Seven Factors of the Awakened mind—</a>

I have tried using
<a id="(.+)">(.*?)</a>
<a id="(.+)">.+?</a>
<a id="(.+)">(.+)?</a>
and
<a id="(.+)">(.+)</a>

But it keeps finding this:

<a id="v45">The Seven Factors of the Awakened mind—</a><a href="../Text/mainnotes.xhtml#p37-1" id="n151">¹⁵¹</a>

I know it has something to do with greedyness, but I can't figure it out. Didn't there used to be a minimal matching option in a tick box?

The project is to replace the string with this
<span id="\1">\2</span>
because it seems that ADE renders everything in a <a> tag with an underline.