regex

David H. Adler dha at panix.com
Wed Mar 1 00:12:02 GMT 2006


On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 06:50:36PM -0500, Thomas Castonzo wrote:
> Hello All:
> 
> I'm trying to write a regular expression that will strip <a href> </ 
> a> tags from documents
> but want to leave the linked text alone so the document still makes  
> sense.
> Our server has no modules so I would have to do it like this:
> 
> /<a [^<]*href=["|\']?([^ "\']*)["|\']?[^>].*>([^<]*)</a>/i

Ooh! Ooh! Can I be the first to go "Don't use a regex, use an actual
parser as indicated in the FAQ"? Huh?? Can I??

;-D

dha

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