Regex to match Text between Text I need with 20 Maximum Character

Question

I need a regex pattern to match any text that comes between <a href="https://website.com">Health & Beauty</a> that may or may not include a space and/or special character "&" but should not exceed the character limit of 10. In said case, I would want to extract:

Beauty & Fashion

The following is a regix code to extract anchor text:

(<[a|A][^>]*>|)

But I want to limit the character to 1 to 10 ? Is that possble?

[Regex is really not the tool for that.](https://stackoverflow.com/q/1732348) — Ivar, Sep 05 '19 at 21:20
Possible duplicate of [RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags) — Joseph Sible-Reinstate Monica, Sep 05 '19 at 21:21
I am using custom data grabber from scrapebox and they demand regex for that — Sabahat Ali, Sep 05 '19 at 21:22
The following is a regix code to extract anchor text: (<[a|A][^>]*>|) But I want to limit the character to 1 to 10 ? Is that possble? — Sabahat Ali, Sep 05 '19 at 21:37

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 05 '19 at 21:59

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For PCRE:

https://regex101.com/r/GJSlZl/1

For JS:

https://regex101.com/r/FIdlyU/1

The solution depends on the regex flavor:

js: (?<=<a[^>]+>)([\w &]{1,10})(?=<\/a>)
pcre: <a[^>]+>\K([\w &]{1,10})(?=<\/a>)

answered Sep 05 '19 at 21:59

Andre Elrico

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Thanks for your Help! I really appreciate it.. Is it possible that the it doesn't extract anything that contains any number like January 2019? – Sabahat Ali Sep 06 '19 at 00:18

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 05 '19 at 22:55

My guess is that you're looking to find some expression similar to,

(?<=&|>)([^&\r\n]{0,10}(?=&|<\/a>))*

which you might want to add more boundaries on the left side,

(?<=&|>)

Test

$re = '/(?<=&|>)([^&\r\n]{0,10}(?=&|<\/a>))*/s';
$str = '<a>Health & Beauty</a>
<a href="https://website.com">Health & Beauty</a>
<a href="https://website.com">Health & Beauty 1 & Health & Beauty 1 </a>
<a>Health & Beauty 1 & Health & Beauty 1 </a>
<a>Health & Beauty 1 & Some other words & Beauty 1 & Some other words 2</a>

';

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

var_dump($matches);

If you wish to explore/simplify/modify the expression, it's been explained on the top right panel of regex101.com. If you'd like, you can also watch in this link, how it would match against some sample inputs.

Thanks for your Help! I really appreciate it.. Is it possible that the it doesn't extract anything that contains any number like January 2019? And it could have only 3 spaces max. — Sabahat Ali, Sep 06 '19 at 17:27

Regex to match Text between Text I need with 20 Maximum Character

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