combined regex parse

Question

I want to catch the value of some HTML tag. that could look like this:

value='3242312-3245-3245,234:3245:324,asdf asdf,asdf asd'>

or like this:

value=358 >

and maybe this:

value=83 selected='selected'>

I tried:

Pattern.compile("value=[[\'(.+)\'][(0-9)\\s]]")

but with no success...

any idea what pattern should I use?

Why don't you use an HTML parser to parse HTML? That's what they're made for. — Blender, Aug 06 '12 at 23:26
Define "no success". Are you doing any other parsing? If so, http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/438992. — Dave Newton, Aug 06 '12 at 23:31
@Dave this one the first answer I remember when I read this question:) — HRgiger, Aug 06 '12 at 23:36

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 07 '12 at 04:10

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This expression should work:

(?<field>\w+)=(('(?<value>[^']*)')|(?<value>\S+))

You can test here using the same expression w/o group names (since the tool doesn't support them):

(\w+)=(('([^']*)')|(\S+))

answered Aug 07 '12 at 04:10

Tyson

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