Extract inner text from anchor tag string using a regular expression in JavaScript

Question

I am new to angular js . I have regex which gets all the anchor tags. My reg ex is

/]*>([^<]+)<\\/a>/g
         


        

Answer 1

Given the use case of parsing a string, instead of having an actual DOM to work with, it does seem like regex is the way to go, unless you want to load the HTML into a document fragment and parse that.

One way to get all of your matches is to make use of split:

var htmlstr = "
asdf@bsdf.com
"

var matches = htmlstr.split(/([A-Za-z.@]+)<\/a>/).filter((t, i) => i % 2)

Using a regex with split returns all of the matches along with the text around them, then filtering by index % 2 will pare it down to just the regex matches.