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Asked: 2026-06-18T16:44:21+00:00

Here is an example of the string I’m matching against. <div class=unique><a href=/2343242/link to

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Here is an example of the string I’m matching against.

<div class="unique"><a href="/2343242/link to something target="_self">"HERE IS THE TEXT 
I'D LIKE"</a></div>

This gets me way too much. As in it doesnt stop at the and it seems to still return the div and a tags.

/(?:<div class="unique">)?(?:<a href=.*>)?.*(?:<)?/

This returns nothing

/(?:<div class="unique">)?(?:<a href=.*>)?.*(?:</a>)?/

So shouldn’t the first part match against the unique “div” tag and the following “a” tag and not return them. Then grab everything up until the first < that it hits which would be the closing “a” tag? I’m lost as to what is mucking this up.

Thank you.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Seems this works better. 

    (?:<div class="unique">)(?:<a href=.*?>)?.*?(?:<.a>)

    Works great.

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