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Test
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Pattern to find Anchor Tag in a web page
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| Expression |
<a[\s]+[^>]*?href[\s]?=[\s\"\']*(.*?)[\"\']*.*?>([^<]+|.*?)?<\/a> |
| Description |
This pattern is a slight modification in pattern submitted by Jacek Sompel. Using this tag one can also match anchor tags not having ' (single quote) or " (double quote) in href. This is useful for web crawler for crawling all links in a web page. |
| Matches |
<a href='http://www.regexlib.com'>Text</a> | <a href="...">Text</a> | <a href=http://www.regexlib.com>Text</a> |
| Non-Matches |
all other html tags |
| Author |
Rating:
Kuleen Upadhyaya
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| Source |
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| Your Rating |
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Title: Do not match HTML with a regex
Name: Randal L. Schwartz
Date: 4/20/2006 5:53:57 PM
Comment:
HTML matching with a regex is very hard. This pattern is only an approximation, and will be fooled by some webpages.
