CODEWITHSUNDEEP
xmlregexrss
2famous.TV
2famous.TV

Reputation: 470

REGEX search and find in XML

I'm working on a blog / news aggregator, and need some help with regex parsing, I think :P

I need to be able to find what's after the // and the first / in the <link> ~ so that I can display the source URL properly. How do I do that?

<link>http://www.arabdemocracy.com/2012/09/syria-enter-worst-case-scenario.html</link>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 37

Answers (1)

aleroot
aleroot

Reputation: 72616

With the following pattern you can achieve what you need (at list for the input string you given) : 

<(\w+?)>[\w\W]+?//([\w\.]+?)/[\w\W]+?</\1>

To get the part you need, see the contents of the second capture group ...

Anyway keep in mind that regex are not the best bet to parse HTML ... Look at a HTML DOM parser library if you can .

Upvotes: 1

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