Grabbing the href attribute of an A element

Question

Trying to find the links on a page.

my regex is:

/]*href=(\\\"\\\'??)([^\\\"\\\' >]*?)[^>]*>(.*)<\\/a>/

Answer 1

Quick test: ]*href=(\"\'??)([^\1]+)(?:\1)>(.*)<\/a> seems to do the trick, with the 1st match being " or ', the second the 'href' value 'that', and the third the 'what?'.

The reason I left the first match of "/' in there is that you can use it to backreference it later for the closing "/' so it's the same.

See live example on: http://www.rubular.com/r/jsKyK2b6do