Question

I try to get all html attributes but getting only one encapsilating others
my pattern is:

(\S+)=((".*")|('.*')|(\S*(?=(\s+))))

Content is:

<a href="html.aspx" target="_blank" />

And only one matche returns:

• href=”html.aspx” target=”_blank”

But I want it to be:

• href=”html.aspx”
• target=”_blank”

Any helps would be appreciated.

Answer 1

It’s because you’re using greedy matching (the default) with .*" which will keep going until it finds the last ". Try this regex:

(\S+)=((".*?")|('.*?')|(\S*(?=(\s+))))

The .*?" tells the regex to search until the first ", not the last one.