How to get two pieces from a link?

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The link looks like this

<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa538627.aspx" onclick="trackClick(this, '117', 'http\x3a\x2f\x2fmsdn.microsoft.com\x2fen-us\x2flibrary\x2fAa538627.aspx', '15');">ToolStripItemOwnerCollectionUIAdapter.GetInsertingIndex Method ...</a>

I want to retrieve the link (from href), and get the text in between get this.

Not sure how to do it

Furthermore, could you specify the programming language/framework you're using? — phimuemue, May 06 '11 at 16:01
see my answer on a same question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5914832/regex-match-pull-href-link-and-string-in-between-a-a/5917311#5917311 — Oleks, May 06 '11 at 22:21

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 06 '11 at 16:03

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/<a[^>]*\s+href\s*=\s*\"([^"]+)"[^>]*>(.*?)</a>/gi

This pattern should match most well-behaved links and provide the URL in group 1 and the text in group 2. For everything more complicated than that use a HTML parser.

answered May 06 '11 at 16:03

Sean Patrick Floyd

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It doesn't seem to work with C#, I'm doing `string value = Regex.Replace(link, "/]*\\s+href\\s*=\\s*\\\"([^\"]+)\"[^>]*>(.*?)/gi", "");` – Fumiko May 06 '11 at 16:53

How to get two pieces from a link?

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