Regex in Java, finding start and end tag

return Pattern.compile(pattern,
                       Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE | Pattern.MULTILINE |
                       Pattern.DOTALL);

/// End right angle bracket left off intentionally:
track_pattern_buf.append("<select");
track_pattern_buf.append("(.*?)");
track_pattern_buf.append("</select");

"<select[^>]*>(.+?)</selects*>"

"<select>([^<>]+)</select>"

"<s*selects*>(.*?)<s*/selects*>"