I'm attempting to replace specific hyperlinks in text with the following expression:
<a .*?href=(['"]?).*?\/?download.aspx\?myid=\{?([0-9a-f]{8}-?[0-9a-f]{4}-?[0-9a-f]{4}-?[0-9a-f]{4}-?[0-9a-f]{12})\}?\1.*?>(.*?)<\/a>
Example text:
<a clicktracking=off href="https://www.test.com/1.pdf">test</a><br />Test<br />Test</div><br><div> </div><br><div><a clicktracking=off href="download.aspx?myID=11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555">Teet.docx</a></div>
My issues is that it's capturing everything between the first <a and the last </a> when I want it to capture only <a clicktracking=off href="download.aspx?myID=11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555">Teet.docx</a> (along with any other links that match that format).
I've tried putting in [^>] some different spots to get it to 'break out' out of the match early but had no luck. I've also tried inserting a newline after each </a> and that lets it work but it's not desirable to alter text beyond the link that I want to replace.
Regex101 Example: https://regex101.com/r/BjpO1d/1
Unsure if it matters but I'm using "JScript".
You need to "exclude" a tag from matching with .*?:
<a\s(?:(?!<\/?a[\s>]).)*?href=(['"]?)(?:(?!<\/?a[\s>]).)*?download\.aspx\?myid=\{?([0-9a-f]{8}-?[0-9a-f]{4}-?[0-9a-f]{4}-?[0-9a-f]{4}-?[0-9a-f]{12})\}?\1.*?>(.*?)<\/a>
See the regex demo.
See (?:(?!<\/?a[\s>]).)*? which means
(?: - start of a non-capturing group:
(?!<\/?a[\s>]). - any one char other than line break chars that is not the starting point for the <\/?a[\s>] pattern: <, an optional /, a, a whitespace or >)*? - end of the group, zero or more repetition, as few as possible.