regular expression to match src attribute value within a video tag

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<video id="video" class="playerVideo" autoplay="1" x-webkit-airplay="allow" src="**matchme.mp4**" type="video/mp4">

This is what I have so far:

(?<=<video[^<>]+src=")/w*(?<!"[^<>]/video>)

I think my problems are stemming from not being able to use repetition within a lookaround. Just to be clear, i want to match the value inside the src attribute of a video tag,not including the attribute itself (src="matchme").

That's the place to go: [regular expressions 101](https://www.regex101.com/) — emerson.marini, Mar 11 '15 at 10:12
@HamZa thanks, also, an html parser is not appropriate in this case. — Francisco Aguilera, Mar 11 '15 at 10:33

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 11 '15 at 11:32

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Try this pattern:

(?:<video[^>]+src=\")(?<src>[^"]+)

the capturing group is "src"

Working examples in:

edited Mar 11 '15 at 11:32

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answered Mar 11 '15 at 10:18

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in sublime it matched from the beginning video tag ( – Francisco Aguilera Mar 11 '15 at 10:37
I got this to work for JS `(?: – Francisco Aguilera Mar 11 '15 at 10:57
apparently you have to use lookarounds with sublime? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24412844/non-capturing-group-reg-ex-in-sublime-text-not-working – Francisco Aguilera Mar 11 '15 at 11:09

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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I think this is a better solution, because it works with PCRE, JS, and Python.

<video[^>]+src=\"([^"]+)

However, I could not get it to work with Sublime Text 3. Finally, this worked with sublime:

<video[^>]+src=\"\K[^"]+

The \K assertion tells the engine to drop what was matched so far from the final match it returns.

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answered Mar 11 '15 at 11:21

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regular expression to match src attribute value within a video tag

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