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How to Match only url from a tag node js

I have a tag <a href="#caveat1"><span style="color: rgb(255,255,255);">[1]</span></a>

I am using this regex <a href="(.*)">(.*)<\/a> But its not parsing the url only. Its also parsing <span style="color: rgb(255,255,255);">[1]</span>

How can i get only the url from a tags?

Solution

  • Easily! Capture everything that is between href, that is a key word, and <.

    href=(.*?)>

    If you don't want to capture "", try this one:

    href="(.*?)">

    Although I am not much experienced with node.js, I think this one may work, but it won't be hard for you if you know the Regex.

    var pattern = new RegExp(/href="(.*?)">/);

    Here is Regex101.