[RESOLVED] Reg Ex to get anchor name

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=[""""][^>]*?";

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

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

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

javascript Code:

document.getElementsByName

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

javascript Code:

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.

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

Code:

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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;

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