Dave DeLong wrote:
This is both a Regex syntax and a boost question (in, so here goes... I've got the following code to strip out all <a>, <frame>, and <iframe> tags from a webpage and parse them for their href or src attributes (yes, I realize that it can potentially grab an <a src=""> or an <iframe href="">, but that's ok for this project).
Surprise surprise, it doesn't work quite as I'd hoped, and I was wondering if you could help me ascertain the problem:
(pageSource is a pointer to a string containing the source of the page; the project specifications allow for the attribute to be formatted with either a single or double quote or neither around the actual URL. It correctly finds each tag and attribute, but it's grabbing the URL and also the "> that follow it.) How can I get rid of the closing "> ?
Since href's must be quoted to be valid HTML how about searching for: "href=\"[^\"]*\"" But if this is an assignment, I'm not sure we should be answering ;-) John.