How to use regex to retrieve the content of attribute tag in iPhone?

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I am new to iPhone development. I am using RegexkitLite framework to parse and retrieve the particular content from the Html source. I want to retrieve the content in the attribute tag. How should I give regex to achieve it? The Tag is

<a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com" class="11-link-dkred-bold">This is stack overflow HTML</a>

How can I retrieve href content and value between the <a> and </a> tags?

Is there any alternate to solve my problem? – Warrior Mar 09 '10 at 11:12 — Warrior, Mar 09 '10 at 11:12

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 09 '10 at 11:12

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Its recommended to use a HTML parser for such jobs.

If you want to use a regex you can try this:

<a href\s*=\s*"([^"]*)">([^<]*)</a>

First group will capture the href attribute value and second group will capture the text between the starting and closing tag.

answered Mar 09 '10 at 11:12

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I want to retrieve the content of the tag which has class="11-link-dkred-bold".I have changed your expression as ([^<]*) because yours showed compile time error for using s. – Warrior Mar 09 '10 at 11:23
Use: ([^<]*) – codaddict Mar 09 '10 at 11:26

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 09 '10 at 13:55

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I finally got the output by using

<a href=([^<]*) class=\"11-link-dkred-bold\"><b>([^<]*)</a>"

I have used \ before the double quotes.Just like printing the " in print statement.

answered Mar 09 '10 at 13:55

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How to use regex to retrieve the content of attribute tag in iPhone?

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