Regular expression to replace string in actionscript 3

Question

My Regular expression is :

/(url="\S+")/

And my string is

<code url="http://ns.adobe.com/textLayout/2008"><p>"test"</p></code>

I want replace this url value with an empty string.

str=str.replace(/(url="\S+")/, "");

but the output is coming like

<code </p></code>

I want the output like: <code ><p>"test"</p></code>

Can anyone tell me what's my mistake???

Wiktor Stribiżew · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-19 09:59:39Z

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You should use str=str.replace(/(url="[^"]+")/, "");, it is safer.

The problem is with \S+ that means match any non-white space character [^\r\n\t\f ] as many times as possible (greedy) including < and >.

answered Mar 19, 2015 at 9:59

Wiktor Stribiżew

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