Letters are not captured inside quantifier

Asked Sep 15 '17 at 15:34

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I am trying to find the attributes of HTML tags. Regular expression works corectly. But, data is not captured.

My regex:

/\<(\w*)\s+[(\w*)(?=\=\".*\")\s+]+\>/

Sample input:

<a href="sdfds" val="fdf">

Regular expression is working fine. But, the text inside the capturing groups of [] which is \w* are not captured.

Help me solve this.

Thank you.

asked Sep 15 '17 at 15:34

Sai

You can't capture within sets. – ibrahim mahrir Sep 15 '17 at 15:36
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Also you should read this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags?rq= – dnit13 Sep 15 '17 at 15:39
@ibrahimmahrir, then how to do that. Plese let me know correct way to do. – Sai Sep 15 '17 at 16:35
@dnit13, I am not trying to validate complete HTML. I know that we can't do it using regex. Ijust want to solve the above mentioned small problem. – Sai Sep 15 '17 at 16:39
Do you want just the attribute or the tagname too? – ibrahim mahrir Sep 15 '17 at 16:41
@ibrahimmahrir, both – Sai Sep 15 '17 at 16:57

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