Question

a regex question in java.
I’m scraping Id numbers from a element href attribute. I have a bunch on links like these in a string:

<a href="http://www.someplacelol.com/pdf/14669/Whatever/Doesntmatter">Whatever</a>

After the ‘pdf’ and slash comes an Id number, which I’m interested in.
So I must get all Id’s from multiple occurences of this kind of url in the string. What would be the best regex for it?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you know that the url will be exactly this, your regex can just be:

someplacelol\\.com/pdf/([0-9]+)/