JS Regex to find href of several a tags

Question

I need a regex to find the contents of the hrefs from these a tags :

Answer 1

Here is a robust solution:

let href_regex = /]*?)href\s*=\s*(['"])([^\2]*?)\2\1*>/i,
    link_text = 'another article link',
    href = link_text.replace ( href_regex , '$3' );

What it does:

• detects a tags
• lazy skips over other HTML attributes and groups (1) so you DRY
• matches href attribute
• takes in consideration possible whitespace around =
• makes a group (2) of ' and " so you DRY
• matches anything but group (1) and groups (3) it
• matches the group (2) of ' and "
• matches the group (1) (other attributes)
• matches whatever else is there until closing the tag
• set proper flags i ignore case