regular expression, non-greedy *

[blueraincap]

I have a file with a tons of links of 2 formats as follows:

A. <a href="http://www.ouathuygbbaaarrvg.com" target="_blank">Doggy</a>

B. <a href="http://www.cehaiuragityagtay.com">Catty</a>

I want to search those links of type B, but don't know how.
<a href="http.*?"> identifies both A and B as the * searches all the way, but I want the * to last until it encounters "

 

[Simples]

"[^"][^"]*"

 

[blueraincap]

<a href="htt[^"][^"]*?"> This does work to nail down the type B links.

Now, if I wanna add [target="_blank"] to the back of those B links, Find and Replace will simply paste the regex, how should that be done?

 

[Simples]

Depends on the language. With regex you could use parameters to catch the string, if your library supports it. You could also catch the substring index/length and use some Mid function to get the string.

A very simple solution if you don't want to program it would be to use sed to preprocess. Sed can extract and transform most simple cases.

 

[blueraincap]

Right, I didn't know the $1, $2, $3 to represent (group 1) ...

 

[Baron]

Are you just trying to make all the B links have target="_blank" in them like the A links?