I'm looking for a regular expression to accomplish a specific task.
I'm hoping someone who's really good at regex patterns can lend a quick hand.
I need a regex pattern that will grab URLs out of HTML that have a
certain link text. (i.e. the word "Continue")
This is what I have so far but it does not work properly (If there are
other attributes in the <a> tag it returns them as part of the URL.)
preg_match_all('#<a[\s]+[^>]*href\s*=\s*([\"\']+)([^>]+?)(\1|>)>Continue</a>#i',
$html, $matches);
It needs to be able to extract the URL and disregard arbitrary
attributes in the HTML tag
Test it with the following examples:
<a href=/path/to/url.html>Continue</a>
<a href='/path/to/url.html'>Continue</a>
<a href="http://example.com/path/to/url.html"; class="link">Continue</a>
<a style="font-size: 12px" href="http://example.com/path/to/url.html";
onlick="someFunction('foo','bar')">Continue</a>
Please reply
Your help is much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Brad F.
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