Question

For an example input of:

<a href="abc" something=b foo="bar" baz=cool>

I am trying to match:

something=b
baz=cool

However, everything I end up with will only match the first one (something=b), even when using preg_match_all. The regular expression I am using is:

<\w+.*?(\w+=[^"|^'|^>]).*?>

Or:

<\w+ # Word starting with <
.*?  # Anything that comes in front of the matching attribute.
(
\w+  # The attribute
=
[^"|^'|^>]+? # Keep going until we find a ", ' or >
)
.*? # Anything that comes after the matching attribute.
> # Closing >

I’m probably doing something horribly wrong, pretty new to regular expressions. Please advise! 🙂

edit:

Revised regular expression:

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

I want it to match zzz=aaa there too 😉

Answer 1

Use a library like Tidy or HTMLPurifier to fix broken HTML for you.