What's regex for stop here!!

[jp1]

With (?<=\<A href\=\"\/).*(?=\"\>)

I get stuff like:

----------------------------------- match # 19 -----------------------------------
board/bd0000092/threads/
----------------------------------- match # 20 -----------------------------------
board/bd0000127/threads/
----------------------------------- match # 21 -----------------------------------
board/bd0000093/threads/">Film Festivals<BR></A>Discuss film festivals past, current, and future. <BR>If you’re a filmmaker or a film festival or screenplay competition organizer, don’t miss <A href="https://www.withoutabox.com/
----------------------------------- match # 22 -----------------------------------
board/bd0000128/threads/
----------------------------------- match # 23 -----------------------------------
board/bd0000009/threads/

Match 21 behaves differently because it thinks (?=\"\>) refers to the second "> (after withoutabox.com/) and not the first. How to get the first? thanks

 

[bigcajones]

Try using the shortest match. (?<=\<A href\=\"\/.*?(?=\"\>)

 

[jp1]

thanks!

 

[fthomas137]

A more detailed definition is that the '?' operating right after the * is telling regex to NOT BE GREEDY. When it make the 1st match at the end instead of the last match is not being greedy. Make sense :confused:

Drove me to drink until I figured it out, lol.

Frank

 

[polas]

I make a new topic but i need yuor help for extracting urls and description like this but just as http://www. and description under it the same as in google.

actually link grabber need and with decscription code.

Example

remove this junks like in the and of url tring

<h3 class="r"><a href="/url?q=http://www.anysite.com/&amp;sa=U&amp;ei=rWFnT8y1I4O3hAe574y7Cw&amp;ved=0CDMQFjAF&amp;usg=AFQjCNH_7uTCRf9bjDE7wU7dlK1zL_eGOA">Effective <b>Dog Training</b> Tips and Advice by DogTrainingAtoZ.com</a></h3>

and leave like that only

http://www.anysite.com
and <b>any description under link above</b>

Like this

This is a link

And this is a description

How to do this ?

Thanks.

 

[polas]

I meanded i can't make any topic for now so that's why i have put it here.

 

[shinigami]

(?<=\<h3 class\=\"r\"\>).*?(?=\<\/h3\>) - to get this text with junk
(?<=\<a href\=\"\/url\?q\=).*?(?=&amp - to get url from previous result
(?<=\<b\>).*?(?=\<\/b\>) - to get description