Re: finding links with RegEx?

[Thomas Reed <thomasareed at earthlink dot net>]

>Off the top of my head:
>
>(src|background|href)="?([^\s"]+)[\s"]

This works, and seems to work well, except for a couple things.

First, it doesn't handle line breaks well.  For example, suppose there's
a break like this:

................................ SRC =
"somelink.html" ...

This would be skipped, but I need to match it.  (Handling returns has
always been a problem for me in regular expressions before.)

Second, I want to make sure this only matches if the text in question is
somewhere inside a pair of angle brackets.

For example, I don't want to match the link in a case like this:

<P>To display a link on your web page, do the following:</P>

<P>&lt;A HREF="samplelink.html"&gt;</P>

How can I extend this to handle these two conditions?

-Thomas

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