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Answer 1

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karim79 is right, regex might be the wrong way, but anyway here is one simple way it could be done in Java. Note that this would not work, if the anchors have aditional attributes before the href. However, this might be a good start or help you understanding how you could do it.

    String html = "<body>" +
            "<a href=\"#first\">got to first</a>" +
            "<span>something else</span>" +
            "<a href=\"#second\">got to second</a>" +
            "</body>";

    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("<a href=\"#(\\w+)\">([\\w\\s]+)</a>");
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(html);
    while(matcher.find()){
        System.out.println(matcher.group(2));
    }

Tim Büthe 2010-09-23 09:44:08

thanks for the reply..

Jack 2010-09-23 10:18:29

but wht i want is the Anchor text and not the url

Jack 2010-09-23 10:19:02

Jack 2010-09-23 10:19:26

@Jack: I added a second group that gets the a-tag's content.

Tim Büthe 2010-09-23 12:57:52

Answer 2

A:

Try this regex pattern, should give you what you are looking for:

(?<=<\s*a[^>]*>)(?<anchorContent>[\s\S]*?)(?=<\s*/a>)

This will give you a group called "anchorContent"

Hope that helps.

jimplode 2010-09-23 12:53:49

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