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Asked: June 12, 20262026-06-12T18:05:54+00:00 2026-06-12T18:05:54+00:00

i made a regex to replace = after href in a tags: output.replaceAll((<a.*)href=(.*>), $1href

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i made a regex to replace “=” after “href” in “a” tags:

output.replaceAll("(<a.*)href=(.*>)", "$1href" + replacemantstring+ "$2");

The problem ist that it only replaces the last occurence of “=” after href …

What did i do wrong ?

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    2026-06-12T18:05:55+00:00Added an answer on June 12, 2026 at 6:05 pm

    You need to change your wildcards from greedy .* to non-greedy .*?. This will make your regex stop att the first href= match, and therefore match the following occurences too.

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