Question

I’m trying to get a url from html code using regular expressiones. I don’t know too much about regex, so I’m a bit confused because it is not working. This is the case:

<a href="cotizacion-valor/abengoa/" style="text-decoration:none;color:#006699;">ABG.MC</a>

And I’m trying to get “abengoa” using this regex:

".*cotizacion-valor\/(/w+)\/.*"

Also, I’m using python, so the code is:

regex_companies = ".*cotizacion-valor\/(/w+)\/.*"
match_companies = re.findall(regex_companies, content_web)

What is bad with my regex? Thanks

EDIT: One more question:

What can I do to get only the first match? Because this href is repeating along the document with the same content (but also with different, so I have to search all).

Answer 1

Your use of /w is incorrect. You have to use \w instead of /w.