regex split to multi matches

Question

How can I split the different links.

<ul>
<li><a href="/page/?link1=2&page=2#fff">pag2 </a></li><li><a href="/page/">pag2 </a></li><li><a href="/page/">pag2 </a></li>
</ul>

I try something like that, but it didn't find it at all

$re = '/<a href=["\'](([^\'\"\#]*)?)(?=[\'"\#])(.*)["\']>[^<\/a>]+<\/a>/mi';
$str = '<ul>
<li><a href="/page/">pag2 </a></li><li><a href="/page/">pag2 </a></li><li><a href="/page/">pag2 </a></li>
</ul>


';

preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0);

// Print the entire match result
var_dump($matches);

Also try this, but it capture it all

$re = '/<a href=["\'](([^\'\"\#]*)?)(?=[\'"\#])(.*)["\']>.+<\/a>/mi';

Do you know that you don't need RegExes for this and shouldn't go with them? — revo, Feb 14 '18 at 14:30
[H̸̡̪̯ͨ͊̽̅̾̎Ȩ̬̩̾͛ͪ̈́̀́͘ ̶̧̨̱̹̭̯ͧ̾ͬC̷̙̲̝͖ͭ̏ͥͮ͟Oͮ͏̮̪̝͍M̲̖͊̒ͪͩͬ̚̚͜Ȇ̴̟̟͙̞ͩ͌͝S̨̥̫͎̭ͯ̿̔̀ͅ](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags) - use a parser — ctwheels, Feb 14 '18 at 14:37
@ctwheels - He's stripping out links from a string. The identifier is the `href`. You don't need to parse it here, you just need to globally find `href` and capture it's contents. You don't even need to look at the surrounding tags. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252390/the-famous-tag-regex-answer-should-its-title-be-edited — KyleFairns, Feb 14 '18 at 14:56

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 14 '18 at 14:47

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\shref=(["'])(.*?)\1

Breakdown:

\s - a space character, as not to match <other-prefix>-href="example.com"
href= - match href= literally
(["']) - capture the type of quote used (group 1)
(.*?) capture everything until (group 2)
\1 - you find the type of quote used (matches what was matched in group 1)

See the demo

answered Feb 14 '18 at 14:47

KyleFairns

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can It work if like life href="pgae/?p=1&b=2#33" ? – boaz Feb 14 '18 at 14:53
Absolutely: https://regex101.com/r/nf11zj/3 – KyleFairns Feb 14 '18 at 14:54
@boaz It will match any references to `href` in the format `href="example.com"`, whether in text or out of text. But should be what you need. – KyleFairns Feb 14 '18 at 14:58
Tanks. Can the #33 be in another group? – boaz Feb 14 '18 at 15:14
@boaz Try this: `\shref=(["'])(.*?)(#.*?)?\1` - https://regex101.com/r/nf11zj/5 . It will put the `#33` (or `#fff`) in another group, if one exists – KyleFairns Feb 14 '18 at 15:15

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