Regular Expressions

[peasepud 0]

Seeing as our own resident Northern Ireland residing expert cant be arsed to help me because of some self centred need to gain promotion I need help from anyone that understands these. Ive tried many a time and frankly havent got a bastard clue!

 

I know it can be done and is fairly straight forward.

 

I want a regex that will add a bit to the start of any link in the document

 

ie <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk">'>http://www.bbc.co.uk">

 

I want to change to

 

<a href="http://www.toontastic.net/result.php?theurl=http://wwww.bbc.co.uk">

 

at the same time there could be other bits in the link

 

eg

 

<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk" title="BBC" />

 

or the http may be missing

 

<a href="www.bbc.co.uk"/>

 

or any one of a dozen other valid link setups.

 

therefore I need to find any <a tags and add in a bit between the speech mark and the next char regardless of whats shown etc

 

Anyone?

[Howmanheyman 683]

I seriously worry about people who actually understand that post.

[Ant 149]

(?:<a.*?href=[""'](?<url>.*?)[""'].*?>)(?<name>(?><a[^<]*>(?<DEPTH>)|</a>(?<-DEPTH>)|.)+)(?(DEPTH)(?!))(?:</a>)

 

should work for finding <A href="">WHATEVER</A>

 

had to do a bit of checking on that and if i'm honest i think certain urls will still break it

 

edit > blah maybe not *thinks*

[south_cheshire_toon 0]

I know it's not an answer - but a quick goole search gave me the following :-

 

 

http://www.regular-expressions.info/examples.html

 

 

http://www.pagecolumn.com/tool/all_about_html_tags.htm

 

 

And each page look like it has good onward links that might help.