How to replace href url with other url in html document using erlang?

Question

I have a html document and I have to replace all href url with another url using Erlang. I am beginner for erlang. Can any one help me on this?

I meant show us the code you have so far with a hole where you need help.. — barsju, Apr 11 '12 at 13:36
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454 — Roberto Aloi, Apr 11 '12 at 14:23

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 11 '12 at 15:36

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You can use regular expressions for it. There is 're' module in erlang and you can use replace/3

eg.

re:replace("kuba","b","[&]",[{return,list}]).

gives you:

"ku[b]a"

I hope this helps.

answered Apr 11 '12 at 15:36

Jakub Oboza

Thanks Jakub it helped me and got the idea and resolved my problem but...need 1 more help... I have a html content and I have to replace href with my href so I am replacing href=" to href="my url here. SO at the place of & also its replacing href="...Cud u please help me how to escape & in erlang. Thanks – Ajay V Apr 12 '12 at 18:25
try using "\&" in your regular expression – Jakub Oboza Apr 14 '12 at 19:07

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