I want to get regex for the following construct where it should result as:
Actions and Sci-Fi
<a href="/?genre=Action">Actions</a> <a href="/?genre=Sci-Fi">Sci-Fi</a>
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Muhammad Muazzam
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Don't parse html files with regex. If you insist then you could use the below regex and get the text inside anchor tags from group index 1.
<a\s[^<>]*>([^<>]*)<\/a>
Explanation:
<a '<a'
\s whitespace (\n, \r, \t, \f, and " ")
[^<>]* any character except: '<', '>' (0 or more
times)
> '>'
( group and capture to \1:
[^<>]* any character except: '<', '>' (0 or
more times)
) end of \1
< '<'
\/ '/'
a> 'a>'
Avinash Raj
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Hi thank you for exact solution. Can you tell me about a useful tutorial. – Muhammad Muazzam Oct 21 '14 at 07:18
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Also [Reference - What does this regex mean?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22937618/reference-what-does-this-regex-mean) in SO: – dawez Oct 21 '14 at 07:21
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What should be added more to work this expression as a part of other expression as I did't work when use it fully. – Muhammad Muazzam Oct 21 '14 at 07:39
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post your string here http://regex101.com , save it to generate a link. Finally post back the link here. – Avinash Raj Oct 21 '14 at 07:41
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If I add before the pattern in demo link, it don't work fine. – Muhammad Muazzam Oct 21 '14 at 08:23
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And if we don't know that how many times this need to repeat then? – Muhammad Muazzam Oct 21 '14 at 11:39
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Thats why I need repetition pattern – Muhammad Muazzam Oct 21 '14 at 11:52
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It works fine alone only. We need to design a pattern for all and it is the part of that. – Muhammad Muazzam Oct 21 '14 at 12:01
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Because in the result we can't distinguish between actors and genres. So it is necessary that it should be under span tag. – Muhammad Muazzam Oct 21 '14 at 12:03
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not fully resolved but it give an idea that how to go: http://regex101.com/r/iD3xT7/1 – Muhammad Muazzam Oct 21 '14 at 14:16