Ey stackoverflow, I got this href:
<a href="/view?view=1"></a>
I am looking for a regexp that gets the first href content where href starts with /view. How am I supposed to do it ? Been looking everywhere.
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**1.** [Don't parse HTML with regex.](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/2812842) **2.** using XPath or similar would be a much better idea – scrowler Jan 22 '15 at 22:52
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Try a `dom parser` instead in the language you're using – Enissay Jan 22 '15 at 22:53
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1`var regex = /^$/; "".match(regex)[1]` – RocketR Jan 22 '15 at 22:54
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As stated by others in comments, don't use regex to parse HTML, use a proper parser. Check: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags
$ echo '<a href="/view?view=1"></a>' |
xmlstarlet sel -t -v '//a/@href[starts-with(., "/view")]' -
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$ echo '<a href="/view?view=1"></a>' |
saxon-lint --xpath 'string(//a/@href[starts-with(., "/view")])' -
OUTPUT:
/view?view=1
Check xmlstarlet or saxon-lint
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