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RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags
How to remove single attribute with quotes via RegEx

I am trying to remove the “sfref” attribute from the html code below:

<a sfref="[Libraries]719c25f9-89b3-4a7c-b6d5-e734b0c06ac1" href="../../HPLC.sflb.ashx">Determination</a> <br />
<img sfref="[Libraries]3e60aebb-acac-4806-bd22-f7986f66e7b3" src="../../Note52011.sflb.ashx">Test</a><br />

So far I have come up with this regex, but it is not matching:
(sfref=”)([a-zA-Z0-9:;.\s()-\,]*)(“)

This is where I am testing if it help:
http://regexr.com?2v4h6

Can someone please help me remove the “sfref” attribute?

Answer 1

You really really really shouldn’t use regex (see the link in @Jack Maney’s comment), but if you have to, this should work:

sfref="[^"]*"