Regex: HTML, contents

Question

I'm having a little issue with getting a value of field in HTML using regex.

There is a input tag in the html which is unique and here it is below.

<input type="hidden" name="t" value="I-WANT-TO-GET-THIS"/>

I would like to know, using REGEX only, how to get "I-WANT-TO-GET-THIS" (without quotes).

Thank-you very much for your time Paul

*"…using REGEX only…"* - Do you also have a good explanation why regex is your only option? — Tomalak, Jun 10 '11 at 12:48
possible duplicate of [Get name and value from the input tag](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2926597/get-name-and-value-from-the-input-tag), or [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1058852/regex-to-get-src-value-from-an-img-tag) — Grant Thomas, Jun 10 '11 at 12:48
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454 — Shawn Chin, Jun 10 '11 at 12:51

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 10 '11 at 12:50

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RegExp:

<input [^>]*?value="([^"]*)"

answered Jun 10 '11 at 12:50

Kirill Polishchuk

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 10 '11 at 12:54

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Pattern:

<input [^>]*? value="(.*)"

answered Jun 10 '11 at 12:54

Rakesh Sankar

ah why? Can you please explain? – Rakesh Sankar Jun 10 '11 at 13:30
Example: ``, you would get `foo"/> – Qtax Jun 10 '11 at 13:34
Thanks for pointing me out. But I had opted it only for the example given `input .....` – Rakesh Sankar Jun 10 '11 at 13:40
It doesn't work the way I want it to. For example: http://www.rubular.com/r/XKUdr9a3jh it gets the value for inputs even though the name doesn't equal t – user756476 Jun 10 '11 at 14:10

score -1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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How are you doing this? The best idea is to use a HTML parser. Regex with HTML has its own issues, see the link: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

Community

answered Jun 10 '11 at 12:48

Francis Gilbert

3 Answers3