Need Help with regular expression

[Lucky]

hi guys,

i'm looking for a RegEx which can find these type of string from the
bunch of html lines. if any one can help me here, would be appriciated.

<a
href="/url?sa=p&pref=ig&pval=2&q=http://www.google.co.in/ig?hl=en"
onmousedown="return rwt(this,'pro','hppphou:def','')">Personalized
Home</a>
<a
href="https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?continue=http://www.google.co.in/&hl=en">Sign
in</a>
<a id=1a class=q href="/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi" onClick="return
qs(this);">Images</a>
<a id=2a class=q href="http://groups.google.co.in/grphp?hl=en&tab=wg"
onClick="return qs(this);">Groups</a>
<a id=4a class=q href="http://news.google.co.in/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn"
onClick="return qs(this);">News</a>
<a href="/intl/en/options/" class=q>more&nbsp;&raquo;</a>
<a href=/advanced_search?hl=en>Advanced Search</a>
<a href=/preferences?hl=en>Preferences</a>
<a href=/language_tools?hl=en>Language Tools</a>
<a href="http://www.google.co.in/hi">Hindi</a>
<a href="http://www.google.co.in/bn">Bengali</a>
<a href="http://www.google.co.in/te">Telugu</a>
<a href="http://www.google.co.in/mr">Marathi</a>
<a href="http://www.google.co.in/ta">Tamil</a>
<a href="/ads/">Advertising&nbsp;Programs</a>
<a href=/intl/en/about.html>About Google</a>
<a href=/jobs/positions-in.html onmousedown="return
rwt(this,'pro','hppwebjob:en_in','')">We're Hiring</a>
<a href=http://www.google.com/ncr>Go to Google.com</a>

guys, please do help me. i'm in big trouble

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Lucky,

I don't know if I wrote this before you you, however why use regex while
there is MSHTML (The DOM). Regex can be used in more simple selecting of
parts although I would avoid it on a web page. A webpage can be changed in a
minute by the author.

http://www.vb-tips.com/default.aspx?ID=541adf13-d9c0-435c-893f-56dbb63fdf1c

However if you want to stay with Regex, this seems to be one of the most
explaining pages.

http://www.regexlib.com/Default.aspx

I hope that one of those helps,

Cor

 

[Lucky]

okey dude,
ultimately i made one regEx by myself. here it is for all those who
are in need for the same

<a [a-zA-Z0-9 ="'.:;?]*href=*[a-zA-Z0-9 ="'.:;>?]*[^>]*>([a-zA-Z0-9
="'.:;>?]*[^<]*<)\s*/a\s*>


copy all the links from my last post into one string and run this
expression. it will show you the o/p that i wanted.

 

[m.posseth]

I would avoid it on a web page. A webpage can be changed in a
minute by the author.

huh ??

if you want to strip out text that is between anchor tags what can the
author change ( not setting it in anchor tags will also change your strip
requirment so what is the problem )

by the way i used regex to strip all html tags from a webpage and then
harvest all data in a database ,,, i do not see how a website owner can
change his html so i can`t harvest it annymore other as just not displaying
it on the web ;-)

regards

Michel Posseth

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Michel,

You are right about anchor tags, I was speaking in general.

However I prefer MSHTML.
(Admitting that it is as well not so very good readable)



Cor

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

i'm looking for a RegEx which can find these type of string from the
bunch of html lines. if any one can help me here, would be appriciated.

You may want to take a look at the Expresso tool, which simplifies building
regular expressions:

<URL:http://www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm>