Brad Fuller wrote:
> 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.
>
Looking at this document from an XML standpoint, I could see doing this rather
easily. Without having to use regex. You might look into using DomDocument and
simpleXML to complete the task.
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