Question

I have a html input element from which I need to extract the name and value using two separate regex (Java).

<INPUT type="hidden" id="Region" value="Circuits Japan" checked="false">

I need to extract Region and Circuits Japan from above using 2 different regex.

For id extraction, I used something like this .*id=(.[^"]+) and it gives me

Region value=Circuits Japan checked=false>

whereas I’m trying to extract only “Region”.
Any inputs will be much appreciated.

Cheers:-)

Answer 1

First of all: parsing attributes of html using a single regex is hard to do, because order of attributes can vary.
If you want to do multiple passes it’s not that hard.
Given that you don’t have " then the regex for id would be:

id=(\\S+)

Of course you can’t parse multiple word attributes like that. You will need " just to properly represent such attributes. Assuming you have multiword attribute with " around then you should use:

someAttribute=\\"([^"]+)