Regex empty html link

Question

I'm using notepad++ to do some regex searches throughout my site. What I'm looking to find are empty link tags.

What I want:

<a href="somelink.html"></a>   //Match
<a name="someanchor"></a>   //Not match
<a href="somelink.html"><img src="someimage.jpg"></a>   //Not match

What I tried to search with regex:

<a(.*?)href=(.*?)\"><\/a>

I thought "?" made the search ungreedy, but my search picks up img tags as well.

possible duplicate of [RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags) — Logan Murphy, Sep 29 '14 at 20:11

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 29 '14 at 20:12

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<a(.*?)href=(((?!img).)*?)\"><\/a>

Try this.See demo.

answered Sep 29 '14 at 20:12

vks

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