Need one Regular Expression - Urgent

[Lucky]

hi guys,
i'm looking for one RegEx which can find matches from the bunch of
lines. i want to find all the matches of "<a * href=*>*</a>". if any
one can help me out here, please do come forward.


thanks,
Lucky

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Re: Need one Regular Expression - Urgent

Lucky,

If you have a reply, pleas, don't than split it up between more messages.
Reply to yourself with the addition.

Cor

[Siva M]

Re: Need one Regular Expression - Urgent

You might want to check at www.regexlib.com

"Lucky" <tushar.n.patel @gmail.com> wrote in message
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hi guys,
i'm looking for one RegEx which can find matches from the bunch of
lines. i want to find all the matches of "<a * href=*>*</a>". if any
one can help me out here, please do come forward.


thanks,
Lucky

[Homer J Simpson]

Re: Need one Regular Expression - Urgent


"Lucky" <tushar.n.patel @gmail.com> wrote in message
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> hi guys,
> i'm looking for one RegEx which can find matches from the bunch of
> lines. i want to find all the matches of "<a * href=*>*</a>". if any
> one can help me out here, please do come forward.[/color]

"\<a * href=*\>*\</a\>" in MSWord

"\<a .* href=.*\>.*\</a\>" in Unix IIRC. Be aware this won't find "<a *
Href=*>*</A>"

VB Net may differ.

[kevin cline]

Re: Need one Regular Expression - Urgent

In the general case this can not be done with regular expressions,
because the <a> element can contain markup itself. You need an HTML
parser for this problem. As far as I can tell Microsoft is of no help
here. If you can consider other languages, there are well-tested
solutions for Perl, Python, and Ruby. For C# I found this link:

http://www.developer.com/net/csharp/article.php/2230091

[Kevin Spencer]

Re: Need one Regular Expression - Urgent

(?i)<(a{1}?)[^>]*href=[^>]*[>]?(.*?)(?:</\1|/)>{1}?

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
You can lead a fish to a bicycle,
but it takes a very long time,
and the bicycle has to *want* to change.

"Homer J Simpson" <nobody@nowhere .com> wrote in message
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>
> "Lucky" <tushar.n.patel @gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1135835347 .197739.221860@ g47g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. .
>[color=green]
>> hi guys,
>> i'm looking for one RegEx which can find matches from the bunch of
>> lines. i want to find all the matches of "<a * href=*>*</a>". if any
>> one can help me out here, please do come forward.[/color]
>
> "\<a * href=*\>*\</a\>" in MSWord
>
> "\<a .* href=.*\>.*\</a\>" in Unix IIRC. Be aware this won't find "<a *
> Href=*>*</A>"
>
> VB Net may differ.
>
>
>[/color]

[Homer J Simpson]

Re: Need one Regular Expression - Urgent


"Kevin Spencer" <kevin@DIESPAMM ERSDIEtakempis. com> wrote in message
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> (?i)<(a{1}?)[^>]*href=[^>]*[>]?(.*?)(?:</\1|/)>{1}?[/color]

Not bad, but a{1} is redundant