get a substring with regex

Asked Jan 13 '14 at 14:12

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how can I get the string form <a to the first > or instead of it, how can I get value of href?

I tried it but it's get from open a to close span

String str = "<span class=\"foo\"><a href=\"http://www.foo.com/bla\" boo=\"blabla\">click here</a></span>";
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("<a href.*>");
Matcher matcher2 = pattern2.matcher(str);
matcher.find();
matcher.group();

asked Jan 13 '14 at 14:12

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Use a parser instead. – Maroun Jan 13 '14 at 14:13
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If you *must* use RegEx for whatever reason you could try: `(?<=a href=")([^">]+)(?=")` if your string is unescaped. – tenub Jan 13 '14 at 14:40

get a substring with regex

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