Regular Expression to find out tag and get the value of HREF using C#

Question

can someone please help me for below

I have a string which stores html, need to find the anchor tag and get the value of href of that tag using C#

For Example:

<p>can someone please help me for below </p>
<p>for Link <a href="www.ffb.cc">Click Here</a></p>

I need to get the href value ..generic code appreciated

Edit:

Tried <a\s+(?:[^>]*?\s+)?href="([^"]*)"

but no matches found

Note: I am unable to post the pic due to Reputation points :(

Have you tried to google your title before posting a question here? — EZI, Aug 17 '15 at 16:17
[Obligatory](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454) — Chris Dunaway, Aug 17 '15 at 16:17

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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Don't use Regex to parse html. A correct way would be using an html parser like HmlAgilityPack

var doc = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(htmlstring);

var links = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//a")
               .Select(a => a.Attributes["href"].Value)
               .ToList();

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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Regular Expression to find out tag and get the value of HREF using C#

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