匹配 JAVA 中特殊字符之间的字符串

Question

I want to match n number of characters between a "<" and ">" characters. For example, I want to be able to match <a href = "image1.jpg"> or <a href = " http://www.learnmore.com/&gt ; essentially with the same pattern. This is because, the strings I receive might have n number of characters between the special characters. Once I match the pattern which includes the special characters, I will replace it with a blank space(which I am able to do currently---the replacing part.). I need help with the matching part only.

Answer 1

Obligatory "don't try to parse HTML with regex" link

Answer 2

You can try the following regular expression

(&lt;|<)(.*?)(&gt;|>)

to match against your string (assuming the > was not a formatting error in your question but the actual content in the string).

Answer 3

First replace > with > and < with < . Then do your pattern matching as usual using regex or whatever.