regexp question

[Wim Roffal]

I have a regalar expression to extract an html link from a page:

href=([\"']?)([^>\\1]*\.html)\\1(?: [^>]*)?>

It looks after the "href" for an optional quote and then looks for something
that is not the quote or the endarrow.

The problematic part is [^>\\1]*. It should exclude anything with the quote,
but somehow that doesn't work. Maybe \\1 is not allowed inside brackets?
I would like some advice on how to handle this.

Thanks,
Wim

[John Dunlop]

Re: regexp question

Wim Roffal wrote:
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> I have a regalar expression to extract an html link from a page:[/color]

Use an HTML parser.
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> href=([\"']?)([^>\\1]*\.html)\\1(?: [^>]*)?>
>
> It looks after the "href" for an optional quote and then looks for something
> that is not the quote or the endarrow.
>
> The problematic part is [^>\\1]*. It should exclude anything with the quote,
> but somehow that doesn't work. Maybe \\1 is not allowed inside brackets?[/color]

Back references aren't recognised in character classes.

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HAGW!

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Jock