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Regex for anchor Tag

meendar@gmail.com

12-30-07 06:27 PM

Hi,

anyone know the RE expression for finding the anchor tags in an html
page.


Data : xxxxxxxxxxxx<a href ="xxxx.com" ></a>

I just need <a href ="xxxx.com


Thanks,
Meendar

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Re: Regex for anchor Tag

Barry Margolin

12-30-07 06:27 PM

In article
<4eadab70-70ed-4da7-9867-1839fa4d5c6e@l6g2000prm.googlegroups.com>,
meendar@gmail.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> anyone know the RE expression for finding the anchor tags in an html
> page.
>
>
> Data : xxxxxxxxxxxx<a href ="xxxx.com" ></a>
>
> I just need <a href ="xxxx.com

You don't want the '"' at the end of the URL?  And what about the
closing '>'?

< *[aA] [^>]

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Re: Regex for anchor Tag

meendar@gmail.com

01-01-08 06:36 AM

On Dec 30 2007, 10:50 pm, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article
> <4eadab70-70ed-4da7-9867-1839fa4d5...@l6g2000prm.googlegroups.com>,
>
>  meen...@gmail.com wrote: 
> 
> 
> 
>
> You don't want the '"' at the end of the URL?  And what about the
> closing '>'?
>
> < *[aA] [^>]
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, bar...@alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
> *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
> *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***

> < *[aA] [^>]

There is some possiblity to have any text after the href end ie..

<a href = "xxxx.com" title ="new"></a>

I am looking for only <a href = "xxxx.com

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Re: Regex for anchor Tag

Barry Margolin

01-01-08 06:36 AM

In article
<7e658650-0442-492a-aae4-405e7721072c@t1g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,
meendar@gmail.com wrote:

> On Dec 30 2007, 10:50 pm, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: 
> 
>
> There is some possiblity to have any text after the href end ie..
>
> <a href = "xxxx.com" title ="new"></a>
>
> I am looking for only <a href = "xxxx.com

< *a +href *= *"[^"]*

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Re: Regex for anchor Tag

Scott Lurndal

01-02-08 12:23 AM

meendar@gmail.com writes:
>On Dec 30 2007, 10:50 pm, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: 
> 
>
>There is some possiblity to have any text after the href end ie..
>
><a href = "xxxx.com" title ="new"></a>
>
>I am looking for only <a href = "xxxx.com

Use an xsl stylesheet processed by xsltproc.

e.g. something like:
<xsl:stylesheet version='1.0' xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transfor
m'>
<xsl:template match="//a">
&lt;a href="<xsl:value-of select="attribute::href"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


Run this through xsltproc:

$ cat /tmp/a.html
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<a href="test1" fred="joe">test</a>
<a href="test2" fred="billbob">frod</a>
</body>
</html>
$ cat /tmp/a.xsl
<xsl:stylesheet version='1.0' xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transfor
m'>
<xsl:template match="//a">
&lt;a href="<xsl:value-of select="attribute::href"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
$ cat /tmp/a.html | xsltproc /tmp/a.xsl -
<?xml version="1.0"?>





&lt;a href="test1

&lt;a href="test2

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