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Usman Tahir
Usman Tahir

Reputation: 2663

Regular Expression to select name from following code

alt="Abdul Aziz" width="75" height="75" class="thumb-border"></td>

I want to select "Abdul Aziz" from the html above. How should I do this? It must be generic as I have to select many names from similar looking HTML.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 103

Answers (3)

Mehdi Karamosly
Mehdi Karamosly

Reputation: 5438

Using Javascript would be more consistent:

//You can get elements by tag :
els = document.getElementsByTag('td');

// or you can get elements by class name :
els = document.getElementsByClassName('thumb-border');

and then iterate through your elements and read the alt attribute.

or if using jQuery you can use selector:

http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/

Upvotes: 0

Will Richardson
Will Richardson

Reputation: 7960

alt="[\w\s]+"

Will select the whole statement, and then you can remove the alt and quotes with your code.

Upvotes: 1

DWright
DWright

Reputation: 9500

Not sure what language you are using, but here's a pattern that would start to get you there. Beware that parsing HTML with regexes has all sorts of downsides.

"/alt=\"(.*?)\".*?>/"

This will retrieve the stuff between alt="" into the first capture group.

Upvotes: 1

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