Capture specific first matches in regex

Question

I have this text and want to capture each match of the letter 'ñ' under the html href attribute. I want it to match the 'ñ' in both niño.html and niña.html, but not the ones in Niño and Niña:

<a href='niño.html'>Niño</a> <a href='niña.html'>Niña</a>

I tried this but it also matches Niño:

ñ(.*?\.html'>)+?

When replacing with n\1, it gives:

<a href='nino.html'>Nino</a> <a href='niña.html'>Niña</a>

What I would want the text to look like is:

<a href='nino.html'>Niño</a> <a href='nina.html'>Niña</a>

How can I do this?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/1848654 - Use an HTML parser. — melpomene, Nov 07 '17 at 13:17
What language/tool are you using? You might want to use an HTML parser here. — Tim Biegeleisen, Nov 07 '17 at 13:17

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 07 '17 at 13:19

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when you try this the part between does not contain the single quote:

ñ([^']*?\.html'>)+?

answered Nov 07 '17 at 13:19

Stefan LoKran Dotti

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Capture specific first matches in regex

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