Dear all,

 I need help parsing HTML A tag with attributes. The problem is that the source is not always properly formatted. I didn't find anything in RegExLib site.

I need to extract URL and the text between A tags

Here are the specifics:

• There can be single quotes, double quotes, no quotes or combination of thereof.
• Attributes can be in any order.
• Tags and atributes can be in uppercase or lowercase
• Extra spaces should be ignored
• The target is .NET engine

These are examples of strings that should be properly parsed:

<A href="http://www.microsoft.com" target=_self>Microsoft</A>

<a href="http://www.microsoft.com" target=_self>Microsoft</a>

<A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com" target=_self>Microsoft</A>

<A target="_self" href="http://www.microsoft.com" >Microsoft</A>

<A href='http://www.microsoft.com' target=_self>Microsoft</A>

<A href=http://www.microsoft.com target=_self>Microsoft</A>

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Mike

After a long thread I suspect someone will wisely recommend you parse HTML with the HTML DOM instead of regex.

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As always, Doug makes good sense and the DOM is probably the right way to do this (based on the information you provided).

However, the following is a direct extract of a recent reply I gave to a similar question (http://regexadvice.com/forums/thread/43275.aspx) in this forum:

 

 Then only change you may need to make is to allow for single as well as double quotes as in:

<img(\s+((\w+) (=(["'][^"']["']|[^\s>]+)|)))*/?>

Susan