Regular Expression to Extract the Url out of the Anchor Tag

Question

I want to extract the http link from inside the anchor tags? The extension that should be extracted should be WMV files only.

Answer 1

I wouldn't do this with regex - I would probably use jQuery:

jQuery('a[href$=.wmv]').attr('href')

Compare this to chaos's simplified regex example, which (as stated) doesn't deal with fussy/complex markup, and you'll hopefully understand why a DOM parser is better than a regex for this type of problem.