regex get value

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Ey stackoverflow, I got this href:

<a href="/view?view=1"></a>

I am looking for a regexp that gets the first href content where href starts with /view. How am I supposed to do it ? Been looking everywhere.

1. Don't parse HTML with regex. 2. using XPath or similar would be a much better idea — scrowler
– scrowler, Commented Jan 22, 2015 at 22:52
var regex = /^<a href="(\/view\?view=1)"><\/a>$/; "<a href=\"/view?view=1\"></a>".match(regex)[1] — RocketR
– RocketR, Commented Jan 22, 2015 at 22:54

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:20:35Z

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As stated by others in comments, don't use regex to parse HTML, use a proper parser. Check: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

$ echo '<a href="/view?view=1"></a>' |
    xmlstarlet sel -t -v '//a/@href[starts-with(., "/view")]' -

or

$ echo '<a href="/view?view=1"></a>' |
    saxon-lint --xpath 'string(//a/@href[starts-with(., "/view")])' -

/view?view=1

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