[RESOLVED] Reg Ex to get anchor name

[FishGuy]

I have anchor tags which are unusually formatted.

I firstly I have tags which are as below <a name="1">text</a>

I need to get the value from the name attribute.

I then need to get the whole 1st part of the tag <a name="1"> so I can replace it with a properly formated tag i.e. <a href="URL" name="1">

I am a little lost in the world of Reg Ex and all the examples presume that there is a "href" followed by a formatted URL present.

String p18 = @"/<a[^>]*?name=[""""][^>]*?";

[kows]

judging from the last line of your post, are you using C# or something?

[FishGuy]

Yes im using asp.net server side c# to get a string out of the ajax toolkit html editor then parse out and replace values in the html tags

[tr333]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM...ElementsByName

document.getElementsByName

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM...t.setAttribute

element.setAttribute

You can do it without regex. Use document.getElementsByName to find the element, and then add the href attribute with element.setAttribute.

EDIT: above stuff is for client-side JavaScript. Server-side code could do it with some XML stuff (XPath, etc.) but I'm not an expert on that stuff.

[FishGuy]

Thanks the HTML agility pack made it quite painless although it did take some figuring

String parsedtext;
            parsedtext = OutlineText.Replace("shape=\"rect\"", "");
            HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
            doc.LoadHtml(Text);
            HtmlNodeCollection nc = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//a[@name]");
            if (nc != null)
            {
                foreach (HtmlNode link in nc)
                {
                    if (!link.Attributes.Contains("href"))
                    {
                        HtmlAttribute name = link.Attributes["name"];
                        Corp.Web.GSP.Model.Link objLink;
                        objLink = objLinks.FindById(Convert.ToInt64(name.Value));
                        if (objLink != null)
                        {

                            link.Attributes.Add("href", objLink.URLRef.ToString());

                            doc.DocumentNode.WriteTo();
                        }
                    }
                }
                parsedtext = doc.DocumentNode.InnerHtml.ToString();
            }

            return parsedtext;