Notepad ++ html标记/字符串（a href）替换

Question

I found another post that uses the following regex <a[^>]*>([^<]+)</a> it works great however I want to use a capture group to target URLs that have the following 4 letters in them RTRD .

I used <a[^>]*>(RTRD+)</a> and that did not work.

<a href="http:\\\\something.RTRD.html">TESTER</a> I want to remove the URL and leave TESTER

<a href="http:\\\\something.RTRB.html">LEAVE</a> I want to not touch this one.

Answer 1

One that will work: <a\\s[^>]*href\\=[\\"][^\\"]*(RTRD)[^\\"]*[\\"][^>]*>([^<]+)<\\/a>

Decomposition:

<a\\s[^>]* find opening a tag with space followed by some arguments

href\\=[\\"][^\\"]* find href attribute with " opening and then multiple non " closing

(RTRD) Your Key group

[^\\"]*[\\"] Find remainder of argument and closing "

[^>]*>([^<]+)<\\/a> The remainder of the original regex

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Things your original RegExp would match: <a stuffhere!!.,?>RTRDDD</a> <a>RTRD</a>

Decomposing your RegExp:

<a[^>]*> Look for opening tag with any properties

(RTRD+) Look for the RTRD group but also match one or more D

<a[^>]*> Look for closing tag

Answer 2

Use <a[^>]*RTRD[^>]*>([^<]+)<\\/a> here.

Inside the opening tag ( <a[^>]*> ) should be the pattern RTRD somewhere. This can be done by replacing [^>]* with [^>]*RTRB[^>]* which is simply

• [^>]* Anything thats not a > (closing tag)
• RTRB The pattern RTRB
• [^>]* Again anything thats not a >

But caution: This also matches <aRTRB>test</a> or <a id="RTRB">blubb</a>

And if you have any other way than using Regex on HTML, use that way (string operations etc)