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Johncze
Johncze

Reputation: 469

Regular expression on raw HTML

I am getting raw html from one site in javascript.

Here is the example part:

<a href="/?Stat=5&item=10739">Coldwater</a></b>

Now I use exec to pull some data out with pattern:

Stat=5&item=(\d.*)">(.*)<\/a><\/b>

It works fine in regex tester (link), problem is how to write in js, currently I have this code (returns null):

$.get(link,function(data) {
    var raw = data,
        pattern = / Stat=5&item=(\d.*)">(.*)<\/a><\/b>/gi,
        matches = pattern.exec(raw);
    console.log(matches);
});

Probably I have to remove some single/double quotes, slashes from that raw html?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 312

Answers (2)

Mr_Green
Mr_Green

Reputation: 41842

Here there is no need to use regex. You can achieve the same by creating a new element.

var a = document.createElement('div'); 
a.innerHTML = yourString;
var result = a.children[0].href;

Upvotes: 7

Avinash Raj
Avinash Raj

Reputation: 174766

Remove the space before the string Stat,

> var str = '<a href="/?Stat=5&item=10739">Coldwater</a></b>';
undefined
> console.log(/Stat=5&item=(\d.*)">(.*)<\/a><\/b>/gi.exec(str)[0]);
Stat=5&item=10739">Coldwater</a></b>
> console.log(/Stat=5&item=(\d.*)">(.*)<\/a><\/b>/gi.exec(str)[1]);
10739
> console.log(/Stat=5&item=(\d.*)">(.*)<\/a><\/b>/gi.exec(str)[2]);
Coldwater

Upvotes: 1

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