regular expression help

[axman505]

Hello,

I am trying to match the follwoign with a perl regular expression, but I have been unsuccessful. Here is the string:

<a href="some link" onclick="stuff">link name</a> or <a href="some link" onclick="stuff">link name</a></p><h2><br>

Any suggestions?

My final goal is to replace this with the correct info

 

[MikeLacey]

axman hi,

Which part(s) do you want to replace?

Mike

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[axman505]

i need to preserve where the link points, and replace everything else.

 

[domster]

Is everything except 'some link', 'link name' and 'stuff' always going to be part of the string to replace? And is the ' or <a' alternative link always part of it? If so, I think the following:

s/<a href="([^"]*)"[^>]*>[^<]*<\/a> or <a href="([^"]*)"[^>]*>[^<]*<\/a><\/p><h2><br>/$1, $2/

should work.

Dom

 

[duncdude]

#!/usr/bin/perl

@links = ('<a href="some link" onclick="stuff">link name</a>',
          '<a href="some link" onclick="stuff">link name</a></p><h2><br>');
           
foreach (@links) {
  m|([^"]+)"([^"]+)"([^"]+)"([^"]+)"([^"]+)|;
  print "part 1: $1\n";
  print "part 2: $2\n";
  print "part 3: $3\n";
  print "part 4: $4\n";
  print "part 5: $5\n\n";

}

this gives output:-

[red]part 1: <a href=
part 2: some link
part 3:  onclick=
part 4: stuff
part 5: >link name</a>

part 1: <a href=
part 2: some link
part 3:  onclick=
part 4: stuff
part 5: >link name</a></p><h2><br>[/red]

now it's easy to alter...


Kind Regards
Duncan